Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965108AbWLMUBT (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:01:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965135AbWLMUBS (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:01:18 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]:10607 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965088AbWLMUBQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:01:16 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qUshkZaCOc/0OiTYWScQM5t4krVSNxQBgCY+ujfdG3wTCNzEumWJafHpNDvcPLI/RmVRwTaMEcFqDRoEcbbPgnU0SLAMIuEY5eM6mYnqsL8SukxqZ8rjbgChnv6MB67AoemAK66nluvL0EAOBthvSfSmsEUgMQjdgSL6eTzzsmY= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:01:14 -0800 From: "Ulrich Drepper" To: "Teunis Peters" Subject: Re: Question: removal of syscall macros? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <45804B99.2060008@wintersgift.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45804B99.2060008@wintersgift.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 549 Lines: 11 On 12/13/06, Teunis Peters wrote: > Now that syscall macros have been pulled from the -mm tree, what method > is recommended to use syscalls? glibc forever had a syscall() function for just that purpose. It was never a good idea to use the macros since they didn't work in PIC. - 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/