Re: Syscall number allocation

From: Josh Huber (huber@missioncriticallinux.com)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2000 - 08:13:47 EST


On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 01:28:12AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'm told that Linus is somewhat anti debugging systems in the kernel, so it
> > seems like the only route to make using our system and painless as possible
> > would be to have system call entries marked as unimplemented, which would be
> > filled in when you apply our patch.
>
> Why does it need to be a syscall ?

That's a good question. The answer is, it doesn't really -- I'll take a
look at alternatives. Using a /dev/ entry would also alleviate the problem
of updating architecture dependant syscall entries.

Josh

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