At 10:15 13-6-2002 +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
>I wanted to build a system running the XFS file system and Linux Security
>Modules (LSM), so I had a look at hacking the patch files to make them work.
>
>I found one issue where the patches severely conflict, system call 1217 on
>IA64 is sys_setxattr for XFS and is sys_security for LSM!
The *attr syscall numbers are official, in both Linus and Marcelo
kernels. LSM is picking an arbitrary syscall number for testing so
they will have to find another number - and change user space to match.
Pity Linus did not take my patch that reserves a range of syscall
numbers for testing and provides a clean interface for determining
which number to use. Linus does not consider this to be a problem.
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