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SubjectRe: [RFC] proposed IPC changes to support 32-bit UIDs
Alan:

> Renaming system calls is bad. I got (rightfully) toasted by Ulrich Drepper
> for doing that with umount - now umount2(). The syscall name is between libc
> and the kernel and changing them breaks compat issues and makes life hard for
> lib people.

Okay, that makes a lot of sense. We can't have a kernel source tree that
makes libc builds magically blow up. I'll avoid changing any names in
include/asm-xxx/unistd.h, but the actual function names in the kernel
source shouldn't matter, right? (e.g. what you did with the new getrlimit)

Thanks,

Chris Wing
wingc@engin.umich.edu


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