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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1
      Just FYI, if you end up looking at having to make lots of changes to a 
    (probably user-side) interface, I did an open-source version of the
    "score" fast-porting tool, described at http://datacenterworks.com/stories/port.html

    It makes fixing annoying API changes somewhat less evil (;-))

    --dave (at work) c-b

    Michael Kerrisk wrote:
    > On 4/24/08, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
    >
    >>The alternative to using sys_indirect is to create a whole bunch of new
    >> syscalls. Here the beginning. These are the socket interfaces which
    >> create file descriptors and therefore need a flags parameter to let
    >> the caller decide about setting the close-on-exit bit.
    >
    >
    > Ulrich,
    >
    > Could you please CC me on patches that make kernel-userland API changes.
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > Michael
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