Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:41:02 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/7] Remove the use of _syscallX macros in UML |
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Arnd Bergmann wrote: > User mode linux uses _syscallX() to call into the host kernel. > The recommended way to do this is to use the syscall() function > from libc.
Not really.
syscall() is a horrible botch; it is in fact unimplementable (without enormous switch statements) on a number of architectures.
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