On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Michael Shmulevich wrote: > As a side question, I would like to to know why exactly the CPU cache operations > are > promoted to the syscall status? What is the situation that a user in its program > would like > to call cacheflush() ? Unless, of course, he is doing DoS. Any software that modifes text needs it. For example the dynamic linker or libdl. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
