Re: Add private syscalls to support NPTL

Andreas Schwab
2009-08-18T08:10:59Z

Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim@codesourcery.com> writes:

> The need would be (a) use numbers that are very unlikely to used for
> normal syscalls,

I don't understand. These are normal syscalls.

> and (b) using -1..-4 for the syscall numbers works out quite nicely
> for the code in entry.S. It adds just a couple of instructions to the
> execution path.

Those additional instructions are totally unnecessary.

Andreas.

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