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From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@openss7.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
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Arjan,

On Fri, 04 Oct 2002, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > 	static long asmlinkage sys_spipe(int *fd)
> > 	{
> > 		int ret =3D -ENOSYS;
> > 		read_lock(&streams_call_lock);
> > 		if (do_spipe)
> > 			ret =3D do_spipe(fd);
> > 		read_unlock(&streams_call_lock);
> > 		return ret;
> > 	}
>=20
> ehm sys_spipe doesn't exist, neither do all but 2 of the others you
> showed.

spipe, fattach, fdetach can sometimes be faked with ioctl().
Perhaps we can reserve these while we're at it.

>=20
> iBCS is dead. It's called linux-abi nowadays.....

AFAIK it lives on as socksys under sparc architecture.  See
for example solaris_putmsg and solaris_getmsg in 2.4.18
arch/sparc64/solaris/systbl.S and arch/sparc64/solaris/timod.c

> > But this is repetative and doesn't solve replacement of existing
> > system calls for profilers and such.
>=20
> Profilers don't actually NEED this.... OProfile is fixed for this for
> example in the 2.5 branch.=20

Fair enough.  I only really care about the STREAMS system calls...

--brian


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