Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265514AbTFSUfQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:35:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265481AbTFSUfI (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:35:08 -0400 Received: from adsl-66-127-195-58.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([66.127.195.58]:47567 "EHLO panda.mostang.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265514AbTFSUdC (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:33:02 -0400 To: Jamie Lokier Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidm@hpl.hp.com Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: common name for the kernel DSO References: <20030618192007$14a5@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030619062011$555e@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030619192018$5cab@gated-at.bofh.it> From: David Mosberger-Tang Date: 19 Jun 2003 13:26:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20030619192018$5cab@gated-at.bofh.it> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 19 >>>>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:20:19 +0200, Jamie Lokier said: Jamie> H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> It's a pretty ugly name, quite frankly, since it doesn't explain >> what it is a gate from or to. linux-syscall.so.1 or >> linux-kernel.so.1 would make a lot more sense. Jamie> linux-syscall.so.1 makes most sense to me. Jamie> It's the only one which is correct and unambiguous. It's not really correct. The DSO can be used for up-calls (e.g., signal trampolines), too. Like I said, I can _live_ with "syscall", but would prefer "gate", because it's technically more accurate. It's also shorter, always a bonus... ;-) --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/