Re: [PATCH 4/7] Remove the use of _syscallX macros in UML

H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30T05:43:00Z

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> User mode linux uses _syscallX() to call into the host kernel.
> The recommended way to do this is to use the syscall() function
> from libc.

Not really.

syscall() is a horrible botch; it is in fact unimplementable (without
enormous switch statements) on a number of architectures.

-hpa