Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:44:15 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] compat: add compat functions for *at syscalls | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:15:23 -0800 (PST)
> Oh f*ck, why do people do ugly code like this? > > That's just about the nastiest thing I've ever seen.
I totally agree. > > However, what I suspect David was actually suggesting was to just have > some trivial for just the compat functions. You can generate them > automatically based on > - function name > - signedness/unsignedness of each argument > with some preprocessor hackery. > > So each architecture could have the following #defines:
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