linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys

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Message-ID: <517f3f820804240948u788745f4s7a5dd4e7417ffeaf@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:48:37 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, drepper@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org Jakub Jelinek" <jakub@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1

On 4/24/08, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > But this approach fixes just one of the interfaces.  There are 7 or 8
>  > other interfaces that need to solve the same problem.  What about
>  > those?
>
>
> Actually it seems to fix most of them.

Am I missingg something?  How?  There a number of system calls that
have neither a flags argument, nor another argument that we can
overload (as you propose with socket()).  For those, we'd need new
system calls os sys_indirect().

> I accept Jakub's observation we
>  need a "paccept()" or similar.

True, that would be nice.
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