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SubjectRe: [PATCH] nextfd(2)
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On Sunday 01 April 2012, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/01/2012 12:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 April 2012, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >> arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 +
> >> arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 +
> >> fs/Makefile | 1 +
> >> fs/nextfd.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> include/linux/syscalls.h | 1 +
> >> 5 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
> >
> > I don't have any comments on the syscall itself, but when you add one, please
> > also make the change to include/asm-generic/unistd.h so it appears in the
> > various architectures using the generic syscall table.
>
> Arnd: do you have any interest in leveraging the syscall scripts I did
> for x86? I have tried to make them as generic as possible, with the
> hope of getting more and more of syscall information into more easily
> processed form.

Sounds interesting, but I'm not planning to do the changes myself,
especially since I have no machine that actually uses the generic
syscall table.

Maybe I should ask the next person who submits a new architecture to
do that work, that's usually how progress in asm-generic happens
these days ;-)

Arnd


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