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Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:39:11 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] compatibility syscall layer (lets try again)
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
   Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:31:09 -0800
   
   It might help to understand just what registers do_signal
   needs.  It doesn't need them all, I suspect.

Some of the original register values the process had before
the system call was processed.

I think it's best just to abstract this away properly, as
Linus said to begin with I'd like to note, rather than trying
to come up with a "portable way to call do_signal()".

do_signal is magic and this allows all sorts of great optimizations
and simplifications, please don't add any constraints or complexity
to it.

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