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Re: redboot syscalls for libgloss/arm

From: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat dot com>
To: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>
Cc: Shaun Jackman <sjackman at gmail dot com>, newlib at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:53:40 -0500
Subject: Re: redboot syscalls for libgloss/arm
References: <7f45d9390512081001q3eae0ea5u@mail.gmail.com> <43988BB2.5010601@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 14:38 -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > Who is the keeper of the syscalls defined in libgloss/arm/redboot-syscalls.c?
> > 
> > I would like to add dup, dup2, execve, and link. This list is
> > certainly not exhaustive, but it's the minimum needed for a useful
> > busybox shell running on a kernel implementing the redboot syscall
> > interface.
> > 
> 
> I would suggest talking to Mark Salter.

I don't have any strong objection to adding those. The original intent
was to provide just enough to support the running of testsuites for gdb
and other gnu tools. A few extras won't hurt and redboot will return
an error for the syscalls it doesn't recognize.

--Mark

References:
- redboot syscalls for libgloss/arm
  - From: Shaun Jackman
- Re: redboot syscalls for libgloss/arm
  - From: Jeff Johnston

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