Re: [uml-devel] Regarding UML system call implementation

2007-03-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:10:05PM +0800, Krishnappa Abhijith-A21204 wrote: > In order to execute the system call in user space, the process is made > to execute the system call switch on its kernel stack > Why this is done... ? Because all kernel code has to run on a kernel stack. > Also UML qu

[uml-devel] Regarding UML system call implementation

2007-03-15 Thread Krishnappa Abhijith-A21204
Hi, I have a question regarding system call implementation on Linux In order to execute the system call in user space, the process is made to execute the system call switch on its kernel stack Why this is done... ? Also UML queues a signal ( SIGUSR ) to the process in order to make