Re: [bhavesh@avaya.com] libc/3259: semctl on PPC barfs expectingoptional 4th argument

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 05:57, Franz Sirl wrote:

> I guess, probably semctl.c should be 
> rewritten to only do va_arg if the IPC code needs the 4th argument.

Contributions welcome.

> Also there seem to be way to many semctl.c in the tree, why do we have a 
> lot of linux/<cpu>/semctl.c including linux/i386/semctl.c when there is a 
> generic linux/semctl.c?

The kernel side is a mess with differences among the architectures which
make it hard to have a single, optimized user-level implementation.  If
you want to take a look at this you're welcome.  But be aware that each
implementation should be at least as efficient at runtime as the current
code.

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