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Message-id: <4810813B.6010604@sun.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:46:51 -0400
From:	David Collier-Brown <davecb@....COM>
To:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Cc:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1

  Just FYI, if you end up looking at having to make lots of changes to a 
(probably user-side) interface, I did an open-source version of the
"score" fast-porting tool, described at http://datacenterworks.com/stories/port.html

It makes fixing annoying API changes somewhat less evil (;-))

--dave (at work) c-b

Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> On 4/24/08, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
>>The alternative to using sys_indirect is to create a whole bunch of new
>> syscalls.  Here the beginning.  These are the socket interfaces which
>> create file descriptors and therefore need a flags parameter to let
>> the caller decide about setting the close-on-exit bit.
> 
> 
> Ulrich,
> 
> Could you please CC me on patches that make kernel-userland API changes.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
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