> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:37:16AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > do we have (or could we design) a generic mechanism for machine-specific
> > syscalls which are not available on all OS ?
> >
> > basically i am thinking of something like
> >
> > generic_syscall("fdcloseall", ....);
>
> Do you mean like syscall(2)?
kind-of, though the function name should be a string and not
an integer (easier to extend/allocate), and it should allow
return values in user-supplied buffers, same as ioctl/fcntl
calls do.
cheers
luigi
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