RE: [MiNT] Incorporating other calls into the kernal

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Lonny Pursell
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 10:32 PM
> To: MiNT mailing-list
> Subject: [MiNT] Incorporating other calls into the kernal
>
>
> For sometime I've wanted do some mintnet socket coding but since
> all of the socketdev stuff is in 'C' I had real troubles.  At
> one point I started to port some of it but a few of the calls
> are more than I can port, so I gave up.   I've seen some
> discussion of moving some socket calls to the kernal?  Could
> the socket cails that are more than simple calls to /device/socket
> also be moved to the kernal?
>
> This would open the doors to coders that use pascal, modula, and
> asm and so on to make mintnet apps.  I find it ironic that someone
> the knows asm like the back of their hand, has exactly the same
> problem I have here.
>
> Keep in mind I don't know linux, what's common amoungst kernals,
> or what it would even take to move these calls.  It's just
> a suggestion I felt the need to express.  It might be
> totally off the wall.  ;-)

Please explain the difference in using a new system call (for which you
would probably need new bindings) compared to using the existing calls on a
socket handle...