Re: The time has come for a kernel interfacing library layer

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:33:53AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>     Well, if we go the cerror() route for the compatibility layer, that
:>     means this layer cannot just be mapped but instead must run through
:>     a relocation / ELF pass.
:
:I think we can even avoid that.  We push a stack frame to return into
:cerror() onto the stack which the compat layer can return too. We have
:to keep that in mind when doing the argument calculation, but that
:should be easy to handle.
:
:Joerg

    The problem is where does the function address of cerror come
    from ?  This library is implementing a system call, the function returns
    to the caller, not to cerror.  I definitely do not want to hack up 
    the stack frame.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>