This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: linux:sys_ipc syscall
- From: David Bartley <dtbartle at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, monstr at monstr dot eu
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 11:15:38 -0700
- Subject: Re: linux:sys_ipc syscall
- References: <49FEF63F.6060504@monstr.eu> <200905061406.51197.vapier@gentoo.org>
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Monday 04 May 2009 10:05:51 Michal Simek wrote:
>> I would like to ask you if someone from you work on separate ipc syscalls.
>> I mean that all code call one sys_ipc syscall not separate syscall like
>> sys_semctl, sys_semget, sys_semop, sys_msgctl,
>> sys_msgget, sys_msgrcv, sys_msgsnd, sys_shmat, sys_shmctl, sys_shmdt,
>> sys_shmget.
>
> sorry, but what's the question exactly ?
I think he wants to know why glibc on Linux uses SYS_ipc to implement
msgctl, etc... rather than SYS_msgctl, etc...
-- David