Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats
Jason Thorpe <[email protected]>
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> On Mar 23, 2019, at 11:39 PM, Maxime Villard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There's a funny historical reason for this -- Linux on Alpha originally >> used OSF/1 syscall numbering and args for its own native syscalls. >> No, our implementation need not actually reflect that -- but it's an >> interesting historical detail perhaps we should write down somewhere. > > Does that mean we don't need these syscalls? We do, if we want Linux emulation to work. I'll review your patch in a just a moment. -- thorpej