Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:45:10 -0800 (PST) From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: n@nectar.com (Jacques A. Vidrine) Cc: rizzo@aciri.org, usebsd@free.fr, drosih@rpi.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: [kernel patch] fcntl(...) to close many descriptors Message-ID: <200101282045.f0SKjAN25209@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <20010128143117.A22348@spawn.nectar.com> from "Jacques A. Vidrine" at "Jan 28, 2001 2:31:17 pm"
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> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:37:16AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > do we have (or could we design) a generic mechanism for machine-specific
> > syscalls which are not available on all OS ?
> >
> > basically i am thinking of something like
> >
> > generic_syscall("fdcloseall", ....);
>
> Do you mean like syscall(2)?
kind-of, though the function name should be a string and not
an integer (easier to extend/allocate), and it should allow
return values in user-supplied buffers, same as ioctl/fcntl
calls do.
cheers
luigi
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