linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] introduce kernel_execve function to replace __KERNEL_SYSCALLS_

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Message-ID: <20060821015517.GA22062@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>
Date:	Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:55:17 -0400
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	Bj?rn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@....de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce kernel_execve function to replace __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:36:04PM +0200, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote:
> For example check_host_supports_tls in arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/tls.c
> which even uses the global errno (although in that case the whole
> else part could probably be just removed).

UML is different.  It uses errno extensively (as it must) on the glibc side
of things.  On the kernel side, there are no uses of errno that I'm aware of.

				Jeff
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