On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:35:46PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 17:28:36 -0900,
> Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >in the i386 version you seem to be adding about 25 dummy syscalls, am
> >i correct in assuming this is just `padding' to avoid conflicts if
> >Linus allocates some new syscalls? is the same necessary/wise to do
> >on powerpc as well?
>
> For initial testing it is easier to use the next 3 free entries. We
> added the padding to avoid having to renumber each time Linus used
> another syscall number. I wish Linus would take the patch for
i assume the numbering doesn't affect userland at all, its only used
for internal compilation of the kernel correct?
> assigning dynamic syscall numbers, alas he has ignored the last 5 times
> I sent the patch :(
$ ls -l /dev/Linus
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jan 27 2002 /dev/Linus -> /dev/null
$
;-)
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