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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:20:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] compatibility syscall layer (lets try again)
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On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
>
> The current system call restart doesn't change the system call number. We just
> substract two from the psw address (aka eip) and go back to user space.

You're not looking at a recent 2.5.x tree with the nanosleep() restart
logic.

		Linus

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