linux:sys_ipc syscall

KOSAKI Motohiro kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com
Thu May 7 00:31:00 GMT 2009


> On Wednesday 06 May 2009 20:13:16 KOSAKI Motohiro 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> 
> the ABI change is between C library and kernel.  there is no end-user 
> difference.

you assume end-user install newer kernel and glibc at the same time.
but it isn't gurantee.





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