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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] compatibility syscall layer (lets try again) 
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On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:56:30 +0100, 
"Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, that is tricky independently of the actual argument stuff - even
>the
>> _current_ system call restart ends up being tricky for you in that case,
>I
>> suspect. The current one already basically depends on rewriting the
>system
>> call number, it just leaves the arguments untouched.
>
>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.

  EX R1,syscall - instruction length is 4, not 2.

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