On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:04 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > There are several problems with syscall(), not just this - because a > number of system calls in section 2 of the manual don't map directly > to kernel syscalls with the same function prototype. > > Even fork() has become something complicated in Glibc that doesn't use > the fork syscall :-( > > So anything using syscall() has to be careful on Linux already. > Changing the 64-bit alignment won't fix the other differences. It won't fix -all- the problems with syscall(), but it will fix a wagon of them without breaking existing code that already does the arch specific breakup on the call site... Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
