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Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Sun Jan 5 21:51:00 GMT 2003


> The interface is lousy.
> I suggest that INTERNAL_SYSCALL be re-architected to return an error
> indication as an output argument to the macro, i.e.
> 
>   result = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (errno, name, nr, args...) 

That is ok by me.  I considered a hairier interface to begin with.  At
first the uses of INTERNAL_SYSCALL were for a few special cases that cannot
fail and so weren't checked, so I just kept the macro interface minimal.



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