Re: 64-syscall args on 32-bit vs syscall()

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

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.



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