Subject: Re: MFS problems
To: None <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
From: Theo Deraadt <deraadt@fsa.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 04/01/1994 15:30:43
> Was the number of arguments (5) to lseek correct in the
> sysent table?
Yes, apparently this is so that syscall() will copy 5 longwords into
the kernel. You'd think it would need to be 4 longwords, but some
processors require doublewords to be doubleword-aligned. Hence there
will be a padding longword between the 1st and 2nd arguements.
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