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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > >>But this is exactly what I expect to happen. If you want to implement >>gettimeofday() at user-level you need to modify the page. > > Note that I really don't think we ever want to do the user-level > gettimeofday(). The complexity just argues against it, it's better to try > to make system calls be cheap enough that you really don't care. > Let's see... it works fine on UP and on *most* SMP, and on the ones where it doesn't work you just fill in a system call into the vsyscall slot. It just means that gettimeofday() needs a different vsyscall slot. -hpa - 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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