Re: proftpd problems...

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:33:33 +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org> said:

  Francesco> That old lib calls an obsolete (?) _syscall2() to point
  Francesco> capget() and capset() syscalls, which are now commonly
  Francesco> defined.  Quite interesting example of archeologic
  Francesco> coding... :)

Yes, _syscallN() is Linux-specific, unportable, and deprecated.
syscall() is much more widely available (it's been around "forever"),
portable, and can be used when necessary.  Of course, if you can
assume that you have a recent enough libc, justs calling the
appropriate syscall-stubs is even better.

Thanks,

	--david