Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls.

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Fri Mar 09 2007 - 12:21:45 EST


On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 17:11 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Of course the existing syscall numbers can't be changed, but for all new
> calls one could just add automatically for everybody.
>
> A global table with two entries (compat and non compat) and a per arch
> override table should be sufficient.

Counterexample: sys_epoll_pwait.

It'd be nice if it were that simple.

It'd also be nice if people stopped thinking it was that simple :)

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dwmw2

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