[lttng-dev] What are sys calls starting with compat?

[Thibault, Daniel]

> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:55:48 +0000 (UTC)
>
> System calls with "compat" prefix are for e.g. 32-bit processes running on a 64-bit kernel:
> those processes are using a different system call table (ia32 for Intel) than 64-bit processes,
> and therefore those system calls are named "compat_*" by LTTng.
>
> Mathieu

   I presume the LTTng event names will also be prefixed with "compat_".  For instance, "compat_sys_rmdir".  Or would it be "sys_compat_rmdir"?  And what of the exit_syscall and sys_unknown events?

Daniel U. Thibault
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