From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5OC1hnC026793 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:01:43 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5OC1hEO026792 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:01:43 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (c-180-196-145.ka.dial.de.ignite.net [62.180.196.145]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g5OC1cnC026789 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:01:40 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5OC2AP28173; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:02:10 +0200 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:02:10 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Carsten Langgaard Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: sys_syscall patch. Message-ID: <20020624140210.A28145@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <3D16E14C.5C8D2FAD@mips.com> <20020624115452.A25138@dea.linux-mips.net> <3D16EF3C.BCCB020@mips.com> <20020624122450.A25659@dea.linux-mips.net> <3D16F891.78A333BA@mips.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3D16F891.78A333BA@mips.com>; from carstenl@mips.com on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:46:41PM +0200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:46:41PM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > > > At least it makes my system work as well as for the 32-bit kernel. > > > > What programs btw are using syscall()? To be honest I don't recall one ... > > /sbin/rpc.lockd. > It use syscall() to indirectly call the 'sys_nfsservctl' syscall, why it > doesn't do the syscall directly is beyond me. More historic garbage - the kernel NFS server for a long time didn't have it's own, registered syscall. Ralf