From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751199AbWHTTv1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:51:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751196AbWHTTv1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:51:27 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:35796 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751195AbWHTTv0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:51:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce kernel_execve function to replace __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ From: Arjan van de Ven To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Steinbrink Cc: Chase Venters , Andrew Morton , Arnd Bergmann , Russell King , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060820194552.GB11843@atjola.homenet> References: <20060819073031.GA25711@atjola.homenet> <200608201237.13194.chase.venters@clientec.com> <20060820112523.f14fc6dc.akpm@osdl.org> <200608201333.02951.chase.venters@clientec.com> <20060820194552.GB11843@atjola.homenet> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:50:46 +0200 Message-Id: <1156103446.23756.60.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \ > Could we rename __syscall_return to IS_SYS_ERR (or whatever) and force > kernel syscall users to do the check? That way we could eliminate errno s/users/user/ .. there's one left that should die out soon ;)