Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 1999 12:45:00 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: access_ok inside kernelspace |
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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote: > why this vendetta against using sys_ functions directly? We dont go > through a trap because in most cases that is unnecessery overhead. You are > not being logical i think.
Yes, I understand that overhead is unnecessary. Which is why I now say - "why do we do _syscallX() from kernel at all? (other than when we *have* to)"
And example I give is exec_modprobe() doing close(i) when it could just do sys_close(i).
Regards, Tigran.
PS. Thank you for your patient explanations!
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