Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: STREAMS: interface versus implementation | Date | Tue, 15 Sep 1998 20:15:15 -0400 | From | Zack Weinberg <> |
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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 02:10:05 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox wrote: >> >> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: >> >> > Please keep getpmsg/putmsg out of the generic glibc. Thats important becau >se >> > otherwise glibc will break the syscall versions and calderas stuff >> >> No. The symbols coming from glibc would be shadowed by the symbols in >> other libraries. > >Exactly > >getmsg and putmsg now are syscalls. Zach proposes user space emulation. >If the glibc uses the user space stuff it wont be able to make the syscall >version
Actually I was proposing kernel space emulation a la iBCS.
zw
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