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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:06:53 +0500
From: "Irfan Habib" <irfan.habib@gmail.com>
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Subject: why is intercepting system calls considerred bad?
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HI,

I recently met a kernel janitor, who told me that intercepting system
calls is undesirable, why?