On Monday 28 August 2006 10:19, David Miller wrote:
> I see it as duplication because the person who writes the
> kernel is the one who ends up writing the libc syscall
> bits or explains to the libc person for that arch how
> things work.
And the way to explain it is to write the reference code.
> And once one libc implmenetation of this
> exists, it can be used as a reference for other libc
> variants.
At least on x86-64 various glibc versions had quite buggy
syscall()s, that is why I never trusted it very much.
> Finally, once it's done, it's done, and that's it.
Except if you still have to deal with old user land.
-Andi
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