linux:sys_ipc syscall

David Bartley dtbartle@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed May 6 18:17:00 GMT 2009


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Monday 04 May 2009 10:05:51 Michal Simek wrote:
>> I would like to ask you if someone from you work on separate ipc syscalls.
>> I mean that all code call one sys_ipc syscall not separate syscall like
>> sys_semctl, sys_semget, sys_semop, sys_msgctl,
>> sys_msgget, sys_msgrcv, sys_msgsnd, sys_shmat, sys_shmctl, sys_shmdt,
>> sys_shmget.
>
> sorry, but what's the question exactly ?

I think he wants to know why glibc on Linux uses SYS_ipc to implement
msgctl, etc... rather than SYS_msgctl, etc...

-- David



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