On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Al Viro wrote: > > > > > > Eww... Idea of pipe(2) taking flags as argument... > > > > Right. That was one of the patches, and it was one that I said was too > > damn ugly to live. > > > > So I instead suggested the alternate approach of adding a single new > > system call that runs another system call indirectly, with a set of flags > > and/or other behaviour modifications. > > What if we put a data section in the vdso and we let userspace set the > flags or whatever in there? Syslets could use one of those bits to set the > "threadlet mode" w/out calling a syscall at all. > In that way we have no new syscalls whatsoever. No?
Uhh, never mind :) That won't work in the vdso. Maybe in a TLS area. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
