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Re: GSOC - Valgrind for Hurd
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Richard Braun |
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Re: GSOC - Valgrind for Hurd |
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Tue, 20 May 2014 23:42:24 +0200 |
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On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:50:07PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> I would advise starting with trivial system calls, such as
> mach_thread_self, mach_task_self, and mach_host_self, which don't take
> any parameter, and just returns a port. That'll make you implement the
> basic infrastructure for the trap call.
Keep in mind that, while most "system calls" are actually RPCs, a few of
them actually are real system calls (i.e. traps) in addition to
mach_msg. mach_thread_self and mach_task_self are such calls.
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Richard Braun