Messages in this thread | | | From | Chase Venters <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] introduce kernel_execve function to replace __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:32:39 -0500 |
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On Sunday 20 August 2006 13:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:36:49 -0500 > > Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com> wrote: > > Unless 'errno' has some significant reason to live on in the kernel, I > > think it would be better to kill it and write kernel syscall macros that > > don't muck with it. > > We have been working in that direction. It's certainly something we'd like > to kill off.
Perhaps Arnd's patch is a good step in that direction then. A secondary suggestion is to put a big comment there that explains "Yes, we know this is ugly, it's going to die soon."
I'd also consider going so far as just returning -1 if we failed, since we can't quite trust errno anyway.
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