On 05/15/2014 08:42 AM, chrubis@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hi! >> People have a number of times noted that there are problems >> with syscall(), but I'm not knowledgeable on the details. >> I'd happily take a patch to the man page (which, for historical >> reasons, is actually syscall(2)) that explains the the problems >> (and ideally notes those platforms where there are no problems). > > Have a look at this commit that tries to deal with passing 64 bit > numbers to syscalls. On 32 bit ABI (but not on X32) these needs to be > split up (accordingly to machine endianity). > > https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/commit/04afb02b4280a20c262054e8f99a3fad4ad54916 > That is wrong, too. That assumes that there will never be padding words, which isn't true in the general case, either. I really believe the proper fix is to use assembly syscall stubs. In klibc I build a fairly elaborate machinery to autogenerate such syscall stubs for a variety of architectures. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
