From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17204 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2002 06:02:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact sid-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: sid-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17170 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2002 06:02:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hypatia.brisbane.redhat.com) (202.83.74.3) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 31 Jan 2002 06:02:23 -0000 Received: from scooby.brisbane.redhat.com (scooby.brisbane.redhat.com [172.16.5.228]) by hypatia.brisbane.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0V62LY13915 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:02:21 +1000 Received: by scooby.brisbane.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id C1BEB1089A; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:02:17 +1100 (EST) From: Ben Elliston MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15448.56809.772225.436094@scooby.brisbane.redhat.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:02:00 -0000 To: sid@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gloss patch for argc/argv retrieval In-Reply-To: <15440.53066.47081.565065@scooby.brisbane.redhat.com> References: <15440.53066.47081.565065@scooby.brisbane.redhat.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-SW-Source: 2002-q1/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Elliston writes: Ben> It is currently possible for a SID configuration to set the gloss Ben> "command-line" attribute for process emulation. However I noted that Ben> the gloss component doesn't do much with it -- except store it. Ben> The following patch adds a number of new syscalls to enable software Ben> running on target CPUs to request the argc and argv variables passed Ben> in from the outside world. I'd be grateful of some feedback Ben> (especially with respect to the choice of the enumerator values for Ben> the syscall enum). Comments? Does anyone have any violent objections with this change? If not, I will commit it tomorrow morning. Ben