redboot syscalls for libgloss/arm

Mark Salter msalter@redhat.com
Fri Dec 9 18:46:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 14:38 -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > Who is the keeper of the syscalls defined in libgloss/arm/redboot-syscalls.c?
> > 
> > I would like to add dup, dup2, execve, and link. This list is
> > certainly not exhaustive, but it's the minimum needed for a useful
> > busybox shell running on a kernel implementing the redboot syscall
> > interface.
> > 
> 
> I would suggest talking to Mark Salter.

I don't have any strong objection to adding those. The original intent
was to provide just enough to support the running of testsuites for gdb
and other gnu tools. A few extras won't hurt and redboot will return
an error for the syscalls it doesn't recognize.

--Mark




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