Re: Cleaning up numbering for new x86 syscalls?

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Tue Nov 20 2018 - 10:23:26 EST


On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 1:03 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Andy Lutomirski:
>
> > 5. Adjust the scripts so that we only have to wire up new syscalls
> > once. They'll have a nr above 1024, and they'll have the same nr on
> > all x86 variants.
>
> Is there a sufficiently sized gap on all other architectures as well?
> The restriction to the x86 variants seems arbitrary to me.
>

Fair point. We have this shiny "generic" syscall list. Maybe we can
get x86 synced up with it for new syscalls.