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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:51:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] Assigning syscall numbers for testing
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Keith Owens wrote:

[...]

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On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

> What I'm saying is that for more people to play with it, it needs to be
> more widely available.  The set of developers that read linux-kernel and
> linux-aio aren't giving much feedback.  I do not expect the code to go
> into 2.5 at this point in time.  All I need is a set of syscall numbers
> that aren't going to change should this implementation stand up to the
> test of time.

It would be nice to have a cooperation between glibc and the kernel to
have syscalls mapped by name, not by number.
With name->number resolved by crtbegin.o reading a public kernel table
or accessing a fixed-ID kernel map function and filling a map.
So if internally ( at the application ) sys_getpid has index 0, the
sysmap[0] will be filled with the id retrieved inside the kernel by
looking up "sys_getpid".
Eat too spicy today ?
<>

So i did not eat too spicy that day :)




- Davide


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