The time has come for a kernel interfacing library layer

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Sun May 8 11:43:59 PDT 2005


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





More information about the Kernel mailing list