Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:39:45 -0400
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Bj?rn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
       Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
       Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce kernel_execve function to replace __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:06:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> UML can be converted to use the syscall function provided by libc
> in order to call the host OS.

You're contemplating changing UML to do, e.g.
	syscall(NR_write, fd, buf, len)
instead of the current
	write(fd, buf,len)
?

That hardly seems like an improvement and it seems fairly unnecessary.

				Jeff
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