Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> writes: > I think either way is fine for the two examples. I think it's clear > that we want __NR_llseek as 62 and __NR_mmap2 as 222. Whether those > use the compat_sys_llseek/compat_sys_mmap2_wrapper or > sys_lseek/sys_mmap entry points is not overly important, we can use > whatever is more convenient to glibc: if we can kill off an > architecture specific wrapper function in glibc by adding one line > to the kernel, that seems worthwhile.
Currently most off_t-like syscalls need a new glibc wrapper since the existing ones are either for 32bit off_t+off64_t (with split off64_t syscall arguments) or pure 64bit off_t architectures. Since ilp32 now (mostly) has 32bit off_t, but 64bit off_t-like syscalls neither of them fit. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, [email protected] GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
