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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: system call
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 10:13:47 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22091.1026173627@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "09 Jul 2002 01:59:42 +0200." <1026172783.2084.26.camel@server1>

On 09 Jul 2002 01:59:42 +0200, 
Vladimir Zidar <vladimir@mindnever.org> wrote:
>On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 17:16, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>>   http://www.xenotime.net/linux/syscall_ex/
>> contains a howto, kernel patch, and test program.
>
> And how to choose goot syscall number ? Are some numbers pre-reserved
>to 'private' syscalls ? What numbers are free to use, without fear that
>new kernel release will just jump over them !?
> And what about an idea to be able to add syscall by name, from loadab;e
>module of course.  Userland application will then resolve 'name' to
>number at startup, and use it just as ordinary syscall ?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=100902098800001&r=1&w=2.  There were
alternative patches going around, primarily from Benjamin LaHaise.
Linus did not want any of the patches.


      reply	other threads:[~2002-07-09  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-08 10:15 Bruno Pujol
2002-07-08 15:16 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-07-08 23:59   ` Vladimir Zidar
2002-07-09  0:13     ` Keith Owens [this message]

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