Re: Re: [PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfo

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:27:30AM +0800, Randolph Chung wrote:
> >>I'm sure this has been proposed by someone else?
> >
> >That seems like the same as my suggestion, except for the spelling
> >(syscall vs packed_args).  Did I miss something?
> 
> If you change this now, wouldn't it break existing binaries? I hope we 
> don't end up with some syscalls using one convention and others using a 
> different convention...

Uh, you asked this on IRC and I answered ...

<tausq> if you changed the syscall abi, wouldn't you break all the
existing binaries?
<kyle> not if we kept the old one...
<tausq> ?
<tausq> then how do you implement what willy is talking about?
<willy> tausq: I'm not talking about changing the syscall ABI
<willy> I'm talking about getting rid of our wrappers for, eg,
parisc_truncate64()

We *already* use the "wrong" ABI in glibc.  That's why we have the
parisc_* syscalls.