Re: Restartable Sequences system call merged into Linux

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Fri Jun 15 2018 - 01:10:53 EST


On 06/14/2018 03:46 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
This would allow registering various TLS data structures with a single
system call without hindering flexibility on the user-space side. For
instance, we could still use initial-exec and the __rseq_abi symbol for
rseq with this approach.

Thoughts ?

Isn't this just a very narrow case of the usual batched syscalls proposal? 8-)

Florian