On Monday 28 August 2006 10:19, David Miller wrote: > I see it as duplication because the person who writes the > kernel is the one who ends up writing the libc syscall > bits or explains to the libc person for that arch how > things work.
And the way to explain it is to write the reference code. > And once one libc implmenetation of this > exists, it can be used as a reference for other libc > variants. At least on x86-64 various glibc versions had quite buggy syscall()s, that is why I never trusted it very much. > Finally, once it's done, it's done, and that's it. Except if you still have to deal with old user land. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
