On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 08:10:01PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Indan Zupancic wrote:
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I'm not pushing for any official convention, just what seems good taste.
In cases like this, conventions (consistency and best practices) are
very important.
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Less code added, less bloat. Architecture independent, no need to update
all system call tables everywhere (all archs, libc versions and strace).
Two files changed, instead of 7 (which only hooks up x86).
Thanks for explaining. Those do seem like good reasons to use a ioctl
instead of a new syscall.
No, make it a syscall, it's more obvious and will be documented much
better.
thanks,
greg k-h