From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com (terminus.zytor.com [198.137.202.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0D3FDEF88 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:21:30 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4863CB8A.7000204@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:02:02 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 59/60] microblaze_v4: syscall_table.S and unistd.h References: <1214483429-32360-1-git-send-email-monstr@seznam.cz> <1214483429-32360-59-git-send-email-monstr@seznam.cz> <1214483429-32360-60-git-send-email-monstr@seznam.cz> <200806261831.19187.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <200806261831.19187.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Michal Simek , vapier.adi@gmail.com, matthew@wil.cx, microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, will.newton@gmail.com, monstr@seznam.cz, John.Linn@xilinx.com, john.williams@petalogix.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > You still set __NR_fork. There is no point defining the number if you > can't actually call the syscall in the first place. > Worse, it is actively *harmful* to set the number; klibc or anything that uses similar kinds of scripts for portability will see the symbol and think the system call is available. -hpa