> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:18:40AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > it's a bug, system calls really should work from within system calls.
>
> Ugh, really? It's going to slow down Linux/PA-RISC's syscall handler if
> we have to check whether we're already in kernel mode. What's wrong with
> calling sys_sysfs()?
... provided you are using/setting set_fs()/get_fs() properly. You'll
obviously not go through the system call handler but call sys_open() or
whatever directly from within kernel space.
-- mingo
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