On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:50 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 18:50 +0530, Gaurav Dhiman wrote:
> >> > yes, definetely a historical reason. System libraries need to know
> >> > this vector to invoke system call.
> >>
> >> nowadays it's also mostly unused; sysenter and friends are used
> >> instead and they don't use this entry point.
> >
> >note that some system-calls are still invoked via int80 by glibc, such
> >as fork() - even on sysenter/syscall capable CPUs.
>
> OT: Any idea when glibc moves to use sysenter on capable CPUs?
it has been doing that for a LOOOONG time
exception are syscalls that sysenter can't do (iirc 6 argument ones, and
I suspect fork() because it's just "special", but all normal ones are
done via sysenter already from even before 2.6.0 got released.
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