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Subject: Re: [patch] Assigning syscall numbers for testing
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Russell King wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 07:05:31PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > it.  However, I think it needs to be allocated *regardless* of whether Linus
> > > takes the patch into his kernel.  Even if the patch is simply used outside
> > > Linus's kernel, it still needs the allocation to truly be safe.
> >
> > Negative numbers are safe until Linus has 2^31 syscalls, at which point
> > quite frankly we would have a few other problems including the fact that
> > the syscall table won't fit in kernel mapped memory.
> 
> Please leave the allocation of the exact number space to the port
> maintainers discression.

Why not assign 1 syscall that gets the name of an experimental syscall
as its first argument and does the demultiplexing?

Ciao, ET.
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