[PATCH 59/60] microblaze_v4: syscall_table.S and unistd.h

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jun 27 03:02:02 EST 2008


Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> You still set __NR_fork. There is no point defining the number if you
> can't actually call the syscall in the first place.
> 

Worse, it is actively *harmful* to set the number; klibc or anything 
that uses similar kinds of scripts for portability will see the symbol 
and think the system call is available.

	-hpa



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