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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:02:07 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix shmat
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:15:04PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Why? sys_shmat is not a system call. Or at least there is a comment just 
> before the implementation that this is not a syscall.
> I think either the asmlinkage or the comment are wrong:

On 64bit mips kernels it's a syscall.  On parics, too but they use a
wrapper neverless.