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Re: A patch for _syscall[0-6]


"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> I was told _syscall[0-6] in <asm/unistd.h> were not for user space
> applications. But many user space Linux systam packages use them. Here
> is a patch to provide them in <sys/syscall.h>.

The programs should be converted instead to using the much more
portable syscall() function.  There is absolutely no reason to add these definitions since it would only manifest these misuses.

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