On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 13:26 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > 288fb seems to use "int 0x80" and so do all the other system calls that > I inspected.
I expect that if I had a Gentoo system that I compiled for my machine, this would be different. But I suspect that Debian still wants to run on my old Pentium 75MHz laptop. How would libc know to use sysenter instead of int 0x80. It could do a test of the system, but would there be an if statement for every system call then? I guess that libc needs to be compiled either to use it or not. Since there are still several machines out there that don't have this feature, it would be safer to not use it. -- Steve - 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/