Hi I guess I couldn't explain myself very well. Sorry for my english, but I was doing that just to understand pretty well everything about the system calls. The project is about standardizing system calls between architectures. For example, strace has problems with aarch64 and it could handle by itself, but it is better to have something similar for all archs so that the problem doesn't have to be fixed for each arch in each program, so this about the kernel itself. That is because each arch has its own way to work on the system call table. Hope I make things clearer On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:25 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:00:51 -0500, Edson Ticona said:
What I have done so far is to write a system call for some architectures (x86, arm, sparc and microblaze) in order to understand how this part of the kernel works.
That's a good learning project. However, GSOC is about learning projects that also help the sponsor and mentors. So you'll have to explain why this system call is a Good Thing to have in the kernel. What previously lacking capability does it add to the kernel?