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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:35:31 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Erik Hendriks <hendriks@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: Syscall numbers for BProc
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:32:18PM -0700, Erik Hendriks wrote:
> Is it possible to get a Linux system call number allocated for BProc?
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bproc) I've been using arbitrary
> system call numbers for a while but there have been collisions with
> new kernel features.  I'd like to avoid that in the future.  BProc
> currently works on 2.4.x kernels on x86, alpha and ppc (32bit).

Please explain why you need syscalls and the exact APIs.