Re: madvice and OSF/1

From: Richard Henderson (rth@cygnus.com)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 16:17:45 EST


On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:14:01PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> So I think we need to make a new madvise syscall. The current one will be
> renamed to sys_osf_madvise and it won't fail but it will return zero with
> MAV_SPACEAVAIL and the ..._COMPAT used as behavoir, and a new linux one
> that will jump in the common code.

We don't need a new syscall, just a different entry point.

> For doing the osf-madvise we need to know the API of the osf syscall so if
> possible we can wrap it ...

It's the same.

r~



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