Followup to: <ABSB4EvqkU@khim.sch57.msk.ru>
By author: "Khimenko Victor" <khim@sch57.msk.ru>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> In <20000602164716.D2893@mclinux.com> Josh Huber (huber@missioncriticallinux.com) wrote:
> > Is there some sort of precedent/procedure for reserving syscall table
> > entries?
>
> Very few precedents. No procedure (not since nobody setuped web server
> with database but since syscalls should not be added without deep need).
> I can recall just one: streams syscalls. So it's
> a) Possible (= was done at least once before)
> b) Very hard (as there are VERY few such syscalls)
>
Actually, the "procedure" is to convince Linus to let you reserve a
syscall number; he will put it in the kernel as unimplemented. It has
been done, I belive, twice: once for afs and once for STREAMS.
-hpa
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