Re: Emulating missing linux syscalls

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <CALigkZQpW8-wAty57d=hpsx6eo_RmacQ=pkej+FezNS_r6Mq=w%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Piyush Sachdeva  <piyushsachdeva245%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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>Dear Stephen Borrill,
>My name is Piyush, and I was looking into the
>'Emulating missing Linux syscalls' project hoping to contribute
>to this year's GSoC.
>
>I wanted to be sure of a few basic things before I go ahead:
>- linux binaries are found in- src/sys/compat/linux
>- particular implementation in - src/sys/compat/linux/common
>- a few architecture-specific implementations in-
>  src/sys/compat/linux/arch/<arch_name>.
>- The src/sys/compat/linux/arch/<arch_name>/linux_syscalls.c file
>   lists of system calls, and states if a particular syscall is present or
>not.
>
>I was planning to work on the 'sendfile()' syscall, which I believe
>is unimplemented for amd64 and a few other architectures as well.
>
>Considering the above points, I was hoping you could point me in
>the right direction for this project. Hope to hear from you soon.

I would look into porting the FreeBSD implementation of sendfile to NetBSD.

christos