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DateThu, 7 Jun 2007 15:22:47 -0700 (PDT)
FromDavide Libenzi <>
SubjectRe: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> It has the disadvantage that it would need some per-architecture setup to
> load the actual real arguments from memory: the system call would probably
> look something like
>
> syscall_indirect(unsigned long flags, sigset_t *,
> int syscall, unsigned long args[6]);
>
> and the rule would be that it would just load the six system call
> registers from that "args[]" array. Always load the full six registers, to
> make it simpler and faster, and not having any confusion or ever needing
> any wrappers that depend on the number of system calls.

We'd still need sys_nonseqfd() though, to move/dup legacy fds into the
non-sequential area.



- Davide


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