Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:02:10 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:57:41 -0700
> I would strongly argue that any change we're doing in this area at > userlevel would involve a new interface. Programs also need new > definitions from headers files. This means a recent enough glibc will > be needed in any case. Unless programs use their own definitions in > which case they might as well use the syscall() function.
To be honest, after reading Alan's response a few moments ago I'm growing in favor of his suggestions and that all of these new system calls perhaps really are overkill. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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