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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] revokeat/frevoke system calls V5
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:46:21 -0800
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Alan wrote:
>> I'm not sure.  Turning, for example, the statat(dir_fd, name == NULL)  
>> error case into fstat(dir_fd) sounds like a way for apps, admittedly  
>> buggy ones, to be surprised.  Maybe libc would be exptected to catch  
>> the error before performing the shared system call?
> 
> At that point would it not be cheaper to have two system calls, the table
> cost isn't very large.

It's not just the table, though, you need two entry points, but even 
that isn't really all that big either, I guess.

	-hpa