Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1

From: David Collier-Brown
Date: Thu Apr 24 2008 - 08:48:52 EST


Just FYI, if you end up looking at having to make lots of changes to a (probably user-side) interface, I did an open-source version of the
"score" fast-porting tool, described at http://datacenterworks.com/stories/port.html

It makes fixing annoying API changes somewhat less evil (;-))

--dave (at work) c-b

Michael Kerrisk wrote:
On 4/24/08, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The alternative to using sys_indirect is to create a whole bunch of new
syscalls. Here the beginning. These are the socket interfaces which
create file descriptors and therefore need a flags parameter to let
the caller decide about setting the close-on-exit bit.


Ulrich,

Could you please CC me on patches that make kernel-userland API changes.

Cheers,

Michael
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