* sys_indirect or many syscalls?
@ 2008-04-21 6:27 Ulrich Drepper
2008-04-21 6:42 ` Al Viro
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ulrich Drepper @ 2008-04-21 6:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: kernel list
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Linux,
will you please make a decision regarding sys_indirect? There has been
no other proposal so the alternative is to add more syscalls.
This really is a problem. For one instance, see
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443321
The problem is actually a socket call and we cannot reliably set the
CLOEXEC bit without massive program slowdowns. This is just one example.
I still think the sys_indirect method is the best since it avoids bloat
in the number of system calls.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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* Re: sys_indirect or many syscalls?
2008-04-21 6:27 sys_indirect or many syscalls? Ulrich Drepper
@ 2008-04-21 6:42 ` Al Viro
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Al Viro @ 2008-04-21 6:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ulrich Drepper; +Cc: Linus Torvalds, kernel list
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:27:46PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I still think the sys_indirect method is the best since it avoids bloat
> in the number of system calls.
The same could be (and had been) said about ioctl(2)...
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