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The kernel and the C library as a single project

The kernel and the C library as a single project

Posted Dec 1, 2010 8:14 UTC (Wed) by smueller@atsec.com (guest, #68260)
In reply to: The kernel and the C library as a single project by johill
Parent article: The kernel and the C library as a single project

Considering how vDSO is implemented, why not exporting all system calls as stubs in the vDSO part? This way, user space could simply link to that vDSO AND use the system calls like a normal API without going through the oddities of syscall()?


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