linux:sys_ipc syscall

KOSAKI Motohiro kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com
Thu May 7 00:15:00 GMT 2009


Hi

> Hi All,
> 
> 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.
> 
> I look at http://repo.or.cz/w/glibc.git and I haven't seen it there.

May I ask the benfit of this change?
In general, unnecessally ABI change cause very large end-user confusion.

thanks.




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