Re: STREAMS: interface versus implementation

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 02:10:05 +0100 (BST)


>
> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
>
> > Please keep getpmsg/putmsg out of the generic glibc. Thats important because
> > otherwise glibc will break the syscall versions and calderas stuff
>
> No. The symbols coming from glibc would be shadowed by the symbols in
> other libraries.

Exactly

getmsg and putmsg now are syscalls. Zach proposes user space emulation.
If the glibc uses the user space stuff it wont be able to make the syscall
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