From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Anant Narayanan To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <47BDE899.33F5E433@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Subject: Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:05:02 +0530 References: <775b8d190802172323g6c00e380qab1af743c8e240e8@mail.gmail.com>, <2B1882B4-AF7E-4C1C-ADC5-56D56D23F701@kix.in> <47BDE899.33F5E433@null.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5f088578-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 22-Feb-08, at 3:32 PM, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote: > I don't understand what good it does to map Plan 9 object code > into Linux files. Is there a Linux filetype for Plan 9 that > invokes a system-call interpreter, or what? No, I just write a handler for interrupt 0x64 that calls either an existing linux syscall (it works for some of them) or a custom in- kernel routine (for the more 'exotic' plan 9 syscalls). Yes, the project is currently aimed at x86 only. -- Anant