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SubjectRe: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1
  Just FYI, if you end up looking at having to make lots of changes to a 
(probably user-side) interface, I did an open-source version of the
"score" fast-porting tool, described at http://datacenterworks.com/stories/port.html

It makes fixing annoying API changes somewhat less evil (;-))

--dave (at work) c-b

Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> On 4/24/08, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>The alternative to using sys_indirect is to create a whole bunch of new
>> syscalls. Here the beginning. These are the socket interfaces which
>> create file descriptors and therefore need a flags parameter to let
>> the caller decide about setting the close-on-exit bit.
>
>
> Ulrich,
>
> Could you please CC me on patches that make kernel-userland API changes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
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