Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265297AbTFVN5b (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:57:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265402AbTFVN5b (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:57:31 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:53768 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265297AbTFVN53 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:57:29 -0400 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:42:36 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: common name for the kernel DSO Message-ID: <20030621064235.GA3044@zaurus.ucw.cz> References: <16112.47509.643668.116939@napali.hpl.hp.com> <16113.22348.748334.416581@napali.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16113.22348.748334.416581@napali.hpl.hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 887 Lines: 23 Hi! > HPA> It's a pretty ugly name, quite frankly, since it doesn't explain what > HPA> it is a gate from or to. linux-syscall.so.1 or linux-kernel.so.1 > HPA> would make a lot more sense. > > Umh, it does say _linux_-gate, so I think it's pretty > self-explanatory. I considered linux-kernel.so, but think it would > cause a lot of confusion vis-a-vis, say, kernel32.dll (I didn't write > that, did I??). I'm not terribly fond of linux-syscall, but I could > live with it. I agree with hpa, linux-syscall seems to be best so far. -- Pavel Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need... - 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/