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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [v2,1/1] powerpc: Individual System V IPC system calls
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On Tue, 2015-13-10 at 01:49:28 UTC, Sam bobroff wrote:
> This patch provides individual system call numbers for the following
> System V IPC system calls, on PowerPC, so that they do not need to be
> multiplexed:
> * semop, semget, semctl, semtimedop
> * msgsnd, msgrcv, msgget, msgctl
> * shmat, shmdt, shmget, shmctl

You tested this right? :)  Tell me about it.

Also we could make these available to SPU programs, but I don't think there's
any point, no one's going to do a libc update for that.

cheers