Thread (42 messages) 42 messages, 12 authors, 2006-08-30

Re: [PATCH 2/7] rename the provided execve functions to kernel_execve

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: 2006-08-28 07:44:41
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On Monday 28 August 2006 04:20, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
Question:
All other syscalls (in syscalls.h) return long or unsigned long
or ssize_t etc.  I.e., none of them return int.  Does this one
return int because it's strictly an inside-the-kernel "syscall",
not exposed to userspace?
Well, it's not really a system call in the first place, but
I could not find any other place where it would fit.
The prototype of the kernel_execve function is the one from
the man execve page, and also similar to those that were
generated by the _syscall3() macro before.

	Arnd <><
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