Re: unremovable files and possible fs corruption (2.1.123)
david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
30 Oct 1998 14:32:08 -0800
In article <linux.kernel.71cfu4$uf7$1@work.noris.de>,
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de> wrote:
>
> David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu> writes:
>>> How would that work at the system call level? Would each change to a
>>> structure that gets passed between user space and kernel space require
>>> a new system call?
>>
>> That's how it's done, yes. Look through syscall.h on your favorite
>> system (linux or bsd) and you'll find plenty of places where a call
>> was renumbered to make a change like this transparent.
>>
>Either that, or the kernel interface is dropped and the library handles the
>conversion between structure formats.
Which is great if you use that library.
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david parsons \bi/ Pushing the published kernel interfaces into a shared
\/ library is creeping dangerously close to the NT wad-o-
dll's approach.
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