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 g5OC3inC026885 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:03:44 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5OC3i4h026884 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:03:44 -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 g5OC3dnC026881 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:03:41 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5OC43J28193; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:04:03 +0200 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:04:03 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Carsten Langgaard , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: sys_syscall patch. Message-ID: <20020624140403.B28145@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <00ee01c21b77$18522510$10eca8c0@grendel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <00ee01c21b77$18522510$10eca8c0@grendel>; from kevink@mips.com on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 02:02:49PM +0200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 02:02:49PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > While I agree that rpc.lockd should directly invoke the desired > system call if possible, having an indirect system call mechanism > is something that has proved useful to me in the past on other > Unices, and I would rather see it fixed than discarded. The question is not wheather to drop this mechnism - we can't anyway for compatibility reasons - but if a kernel or userspace implementation is preferable for the future. Ralf