Re: gloss patch for argc/argv retrieval

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>]

Hi -

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:21:46PM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
> It is currently possible for a SID configuration to set the gloss
> "command-line" attribute for process emulation.  However I noted that
> the gloss component doesn't do much with it -- except store it.
> 
> The following patch adds a number of new syscalls to enable software
> running on target CPUs to request the argc and argv variables passed
> in from the outside world.  [...]
> [...]

I suspect a single system call, like ARM ANGEL's "get entire command
line as a string" would be sufficient.  Are you planning to add
support for this system call to some libgloss ports also?


- FChE

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