Re: [Linux-streams] Re: [PATCH] Re: export of sys_call_tabl

Brian F. G. Bidulock (bidulock@openss7.org)
Sat, 12 Oct 2002 03:54:06 -0600


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Arjan,

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 04:29, Ole Husgaard wrote:
> > "Brian F. G. Bidulock" wrote:
> > > On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > It is not. Sys_call_table was exported to allow iBCS/Linux-ABI
> > >
> > > I don't know if it matters, but these two calls putpmsg and getpmsg
> > > are the calls used by iBCS.
> >
> > AFAIK, iBCS use these syscalls to emulate TLI, and iBCS
> iBCS doesn't exist for 2.4 or 2.5 kernels
> it's called linux-abi now and does NOT use these syscalls

This is true, but there is a large chunk of iBCS code still under
the sparc archictecture under solaris. This code is not linked
into the putpmsg or getpmsg syscalls, but is still distributed with
the kernel. As it is unused, will this code be removed? Or, has it
already been removed in 2.5 kernels?

- --brian
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