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Date:      Tue, 03 Sep 2002 15:11:25 -0400
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys syscallsubr.h vnode.h src/sys/kern init_main.c kern_sig.c sys_generic.c vfs_syscalls.c 
Message-ID:  <200209031911.g83JBPw98963@green.bikeshed.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Sep 2002 13:37:29 PDT." <200209012037.g81KbT4U020356@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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Ian Dowse <iedowse@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> iedowse     2002/09/01 13:37:29 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/sys              vnode.h 
>     sys/kern             init_main.c kern_sig.c sys_generic.c 
>                          vfs_syscalls.c 
>   Added files:
>     sys/sys              syscallsubr.h 
>   Log:
>   Split out a number of mostly VFS and signal related syscalls into
>   a kernel-internal kern_*() version and a wrapper that is called via
>   the syscall vector table. For paths and structure pointers, the
>   internal version either takes a uio_seg parameter or requires the
>   caller to copyin() the data to kernel memory as appropiate. This
>   will permit emulation layers to use these syscalls without having
>   to copy out translated arguments to the stack gap.

Good job; I'm glad you've decided to go through with completing the arduous 
solution to the problem.

-- 
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