Re: [Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

2003-12-19 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:51:21PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:03:51PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > heard of it for HPUX, and it seems that XEN > > is somewhat compareable to that, but that didn't > > answer my question: are they available for Linux > > or 'just' f

Re: [Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

2003-12-19 Thread Grant Grundler
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:03:51PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > heard of it for HPUX, and it seems that XEN > is somewhat compareable to that, but that didn't > answer my question: are they available for Linux > or 'just' for HPUX? http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/manageability/partiti

Re: [Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

2003-12-19 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:11:34AM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:24:56AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > ... > > That should be part of the patch to enable vserver. > > > > BTW, I visited http://www.linux-vserver.org/ and didn't feel > > > I understood why it's more use

Re: [Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

2003-12-19 Thread Grant Grundler
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:24:56AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: ... > sure not, but gettimeofday for example, will > return the current time, and this usually does > not need an architecture specific interface glibc > (for sure it will require an arch specific > implementation ;) possible a diff

Re: [Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

2003-12-18 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:03:52PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:00:35AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > ... > > I agree from a technical point of view, but not from > > the developer's perspective (who just want's a syscall > > for whatever arch independant use ...) >

Re: [Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

2003-12-18 Thread Grant Grundler
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:00:35AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: ... > I agree from a technical point of view, but not from > the developer's perspective (who just want's a syscall > for whatever arch independant use ...) sorry - an "arch independent syscall" sounds like an oxymoron to me. > > B

Re: [Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

2003-12-18 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:55:35PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:28:09PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > personally, I believe that the whole syscall number > > allocation per architecture is broken by design, > > No it's definitely not. since you removed it from the

Re: [Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

2003-12-18 Thread Grant Grundler
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:28:09PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > personally, I believe that the whole syscall number > allocation per architecture is broken by design, No it's definitely not. Binary compatibility with other OS's is an arch specific problem. In our case, any chance of support for

Re: [Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

2003-12-18 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:04:50PM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:01:29PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > vserver folks really do not care whether or not the > > syscall is reserved on their architecture, as long > > as it's there, and it will be there anyway, I just >

Re: [Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:01:29PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > vserver folks really do not care whether or not the > syscall is reserved on their architecture, as long > as it's there, and it will be there anyway, I just > wanted to be polite and correct, so if you 'think' > we split up the sw

Re: [Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

2003-12-18 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:25:06AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:16:18PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > > > Hi everyone! > > > > I would like to 'officially' reserve a syscall number > > for parisc(64)/vserver ... > > The syscall is the typical multiplexer crap,

[Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

2003-12-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:16:18PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > I would like to 'officially' reserve a syscall number > for parisc(64)/vserver ... The syscall is the typical multiplexer crap, so an actual submission wouldn't have any chance. Please fix up your junk beofe t