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

[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 original context ...

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 ...)

> Binary compatibility with other OS's is an arch specific problem.

for sure it is, but I don't see a relation there ...

> In our case, any chance of support for HPUX would
> require reserving HPUX syscall numbers and provide
> appropriate wrappers in the kernel to support it.

so where is the problem, having an additional offset/info
in the macro defining the syscall can handle that, why
has it to be a different numbering for 'linux' syscalls?

> And I don't see why the value of a syscall matters.

it doesn't matter, and it doesn't matter to me ...

> Just use the right header files and it should work on any arch.

right, but getting one syscall for every arch, seems
like a jigsaw puzzle, as the original thread shows ...

best,
Herbert

> grant
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