From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@yahoo.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Making system calls more portable.
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:16:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A0BA6D.2090706@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <647618.57006.qm@web55614.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
On 01/07/2007 10:07 AM, Amit Choudhary wrote:
> However, people may say that, implementing custom system calls is not
> advocated by linux. And I think it is not advocated precisely because
> of this reason that they are not portable.
True I guess. But do you want to live in a software environment where as
a matter of course every distribution out there puts its "value-add" in
custom system calls and creating a $DISTRIBUTION-only userspace? After
all, if nothing uses their shiny new custom syscall, they might as well
not add it. This would fragment Linux quite horribly and IMO cases where
this happens should be _dis_ couraged, not encouraged by making it less
problematic to survive the resulting mess.
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-07 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-07 8:15 [DISCUSS] Making system calls more portable Amit Choudhary
2007-01-07 8:25 ` Rene Herman
2007-01-07 9:07 ` Amit Choudhary
2007-01-07 9:16 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2007-01-07 11:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 13:59 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-07 9:33 ` Vadim Lobanov
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