Re: [PATCH 0/4] sys_indirect system call

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Sat Nov 17 2007 - 04:18:01 EST


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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Uli doesn't care that much about async syscalls, but I think that from a
> kernel standpoint, we'd want to use this same indirect call for async
> scheduling,

Note that I added a flags parameter to sys_indirect in the v3 patch.
This should allow you to add additional functionality like syslets
later. Currently a zero value is enforced. In future nonzero values
could also imply that the function takes additional parameters.

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