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Re: linux:sys_ipc syscall
- From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki dot motohiro at jp dot fujitsu dot com>
- To: monstr at monstr dot eu
- Cc: kosaki dot motohiro at jp dot fujitsu dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 09:13:16 +0900 (JST)
- Subject: Re: linux:sys_ipc syscall
- References: <49FEF63F.6060504@monstr.eu>
Hi
> Hi All,
>
> 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.
>
> I look at http://repo.or.cz/w/glibc.git and I haven't seen it there.
May I ask the benfit of this change?
In general, unnecessally ABI change cause very large end-user confusion.
thanks.