Re: glibc developers refuse to support user land fake FS syscalls
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:04:22 +0100 (BST)
> I know this won't help the current situation, but for the future, how
> about changing the way syscalls are invoked. Instead of using int
> 0x80, do a jump to an absolute location which in turn does the int
> 0x80. The page that includes the instructions to do system-calls
This seems like making everyone may for your peculiar needs. People who
need this degree of weirdness can use ptrace hooks, add a personality to
the kernel or build a new glibc with their jump/tlb/cache miss penalty;
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