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sys_indirect()

Posted Nov 22, 2007 15:16 UTC (Thu) by tyhik (guest, #14747)
In reply to: sys_indirect() by i3839
Parent article: sys_indirect() 

"If the systemcall isn't supposed to be used directly by applications, it isn't worth
existing."

There exist some, and rightly so. futex() comes to mind.

But indirect() is ugly indeed.

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Posted Nov 22, 2007 18:28 UTC (Thu) by i3839 (guest, #31386) [Link] 

The futex adds a unique and useful feature which can also be interesting for certain
apps/libraries other than glibc. The API is a bit ugly, mostly because of historical reasons
it seems.

But what they seem to be wanting to do here is providing a userspace wrapper in glibc for the
indirect variant of a syscall, and that's just plain silly.


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