Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 32-bit syscalls from 64-bit process on x86-64? | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Date | Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:16:29 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 07:15 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > int 0x80 from 64bit will call 32bit syscalls.
Hm, that's not what I found. If I run int 0x80 with [re]ax=1, I get exit with a 32-bit process and write with a 64-bit one.
> But some things > will not work properly, e.g. signals because they test the 32bit > flag in the task_struct. So you would still get 64bit signal frames.
OK, I can deal with that, since signals are never directly delivered to the client.
> There are some other such tests, but they probably wont affect you. > > There were some plans at one point to allow to toggle the flag > using personality or prctl, but so far it hasn't been implemented. > There is also no way to do 64bit calls from a 32bit executable.
What about my idea of using distinct ranges of syscall numbers to disambiguate them?
J
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