Re: [PATCH] introduce kernel_execve function to replace __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__

From: Jeff Dike
Date: Tue Aug 22 2006 - 09:38:48 EST


On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:06:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> UML can be converted to use the syscall function provided by libc
> in order to call the host OS.

You're contemplating changing UML to do, e.g.
syscall(NR_write, fd, buf, len)
instead of the current
write(fd, buf,len)
?

That hardly seems like an improvement and it seems fairly unnecessary.

Jeff
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