Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: unremovable files and possible fs corruption (2.1.123) | Date | 30 Oct 1998 14:32:08 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.71cfu4$uf7$1@work.noris.de>, Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de> wrote: > > David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu> writes: >>> How would that work at the system call level? Would each change to a >>> structure that gets passed between user space and kernel space require >>> a new system call? >> >> That's how it's done, yes. Look through syscall.h on your favorite >> system (linux or bsd) and you'll find plenty of places where a call >> was renumbered to make a change like this transparent. >> >Either that, or the kernel interface is dropped and the library handles the >conversion between structure formats.
Which is great if you use that library.
____ david parsons \bi/ Pushing the published kernel interfaces into a shared \/ library is creeping dangerously close to the NT wad-o- dll's approach.
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