Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: common name for the kernel DSO | Date | 18 Jun 2003 23:18:02 -0700 |
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Followup to: <16112.47509.643668.116939@napali.hpl.hp.com> By author: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Both x86 and ia64 now provide a dynamically shared object (DSO) for > system call purposes (e.g., to speed up system calls and for signal > trampoline/sigreturn purposes). At the moment, the names of these > DSOs are different: > > x86: linux-vsyscall.so.1 > ia64: linux-gate.so.1 > > I think there is some value in using the same name on all platforms > that support such a DSO. vsyscall makes no sense for ia64, since > there are no virtual syscalls (instead, ia64 linux provides a fast > system call convention which, when coupled with light-weight system > call handlers, provide full syscall semantics at more or less the > speed of virtual system calls). > > Not surprisingly, I like the name "linux-gate", since that is really > what this DSO is all about: it's a gateway between user and kernel > space. However, if this name isn't appropriate for x86, perhaps we > can find another name which will be acceptable to everybody. >
It's a pretty ugly name, quite frankly, since it doesn't explain what it is a gate from or to. linux-syscall.so.1 or linux-kernel.so.1 would make a lot more sense.
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