On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 22:36 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2006.08.20 22:20:28 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 22:11 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > > On 2006.08.20 21:50:46 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > \ > > > > > Could we rename __syscall_return to IS_SYS_ERR (or whatever) and force > > > > > kernel syscall users to do the check? That way we could eliminate > > > > > errno > > > > > > > > s/users/user/ .. there's one left that should die out soon ;) > > > > > > > > > > Only one in unistd.h, but throughout the kernel there are quite a few > > > unless I'm missing something here: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/kernel/linux-2.6$ grep \ _syscall * -R | \ > > > > grep -v define\\\|undef\\\|clobber | wc -l > > > 116 > > > > > > Are these just going to be replaced by calls to sys_whatever? > > > > they're not the users of this, they're the definitions... ;) > > Well, I assume that if some code defines a syscall, it will actually use > it. Of course I meant to ask if the users of those definitions are going > to just call sys_whatever. > For example check_host_supports_tls in arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/tls.c > which even uses the global errno (although in that case the whole > else part could probably be just removed).
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