On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 07:46:13PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > If one insists to have fd at first argument, what is wrong with > having u32 arguments only? Well, I was one of those who objected as it seems *UGLY* to me. > It's not that this syscall comes even close to what can be > considered performance critical... Right. > It adds userspace overhead for one architecture. Every *trace and > *libc needs special handling on s390 for this syscall. I would > prefer to avoid this. I'm not that bothered about it. I would prefer it did use clean 64-bit arguments, but given it's a non-critical syscall I'm don't think the aesthetics are worth impossing crud on s390 for. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
