syscalls.list changes: List arguments

[Greg McGary]

Jes Sorensen <jes@linuxcare.com> writes:

> Ok one thing that confuses me on this one, I see that
> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list has mmap as the following:
> 
> mmap		-	mmap		p:piiiii	__mmap		mmap
> 
> But the kernel implementation doesn't use pointers but rather unsigned
> long to specify the address, ie.
> 
> arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c:asmlinkage long sys_mmap2(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
> 
> So shouldn't the signature here be i:iiiiii rather than p:piiiii ? or
> did I get something wrong?

The signatures are determined by the user API as defined in
sys/mman.h, which defines the addr as void*.