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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:19:06 +0530 (IST)
From: "SATHISH.J" <sathish.j@tatainfotech.com>
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Subject: Reg putname() function
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Hi,

Can anybody please tell me what the following assembly code means:
Tne function put_unused_fd() does FD_CLR() to clear the file descriptor
allocated in case file pointer could not be got. Before returning -1 as
file descriptor it goes to put_unused_fd() which calls FD_CLR() which is
as follows;

#define __FD_CLR(fd,fdsetp) \
                __asm__ __volatile__("btrl %1,%0": \
                        "=m" (*(__kernel_fd_set *) (fdsetp)):"r" ((int)
(fd)))

This is in asm/posixtypes.h. Please decipher this for me.

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
sathish