Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:19:00 -0800 (PST) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [patch 06/14] syslets: core, documentation |
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:52:32PM +0100, Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote: > > +The syslet atom is a small, fixed-size (44 bytes on 32-bit) piece of > > +user-space memory, which is the basic unit of execution within the syslet > > +framework. A syslet represents a single system-call and its arguments. > > +In addition it also has condition flags attached to it that allows the > > +construction of larger programs (syslets) from these atoms. > > + > > +Arguments to the system call are implemented via pointers to arguments. > > I've just thought, how x86/x86_64 problem is going to be solved for > pointer size? Is it better to wire longs/pointers to 64 bits right now?
Compat code is gonna to be fun also for that (pointers to args, and "next" chaining pointer).
- Davide
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