On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Tomas Olsson wrote:
Please, take it easy. The syscall hack is a terrible thing, and we shouldfollow suit very soon. After all, it is the mission of the Linux kernel developers to make life as hard as possible for anyone who maintains code not in the kernel tree.
Jeff's apparently strung rather tight. He won't go drinking, either...
stop doing it. Sure it's been done for ages and ages, that doesn't make it right. Sure it's our syscall, but unless we use it right or submit a palatable patch that gives us access in a reasonable way, we'll have to use other approaches. Most of the infrastructure we need is there, we just need to get it working. Then we can drop this whole awful hack.
Not really good feedback to your point, the syscall can probably be made to go away entirely, it's just a matter of finding the time to do everything else better ways. The amount of time involved would probably be less than trying to find and then agree on a "right" way to use the system call. Really, the only thing that couldn't be dealt with another (natively correct, probably) way today (I think) is PAGs. And that's a shame.
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