Re: Proposal to obsolete SYS_pipe

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 10:25:15PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> It is a special syscall that returns two integers from one function
> call. Fanciness is not compatible with regular C syntax and it demands
> per-cpu assembly wrappers and rump-kernel workarounds. It's not easily
> usable with syscall(2).

So far I see no good reason for this move. I consider the very existance
of syscall(2) a bug, so any justification based on "it can't be used
with it" is hallow.

Joerg