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Syscall by name

DISCUSSION Max 3 participants 3 messages Apr 1, 2002 – Apr 2, 2002

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I saw several months ago here a message, telling about a new system call, that returnes a syscall number, by its name. So, if a module registers a new syscall dynamically, it is automatically seen by everybody. Is this idea dead?

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Quoted 4 lines · Max

I saw several months ago here a message, telling about a new system call, that returnes a syscall number, by its name. So, if a module registers a new syscall dynamically, it is automatically seen by everybody. Is this idea dead?

It's stillborn - modules are not (and will not be) allowed to add syscalls. Case closed.

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Quoted 9 lines · Alexander Viro
Quoted 4 lines · Max

I saw several months ago here a message, telling about a new system call, that returnes a syscall number, by its name. So, if a module registers a new syscall dynamically, it is automatically seen by everybody. Is this idea dead?

It's stillborn - modules are not (and will not be) allowed to add syscalls. Case closed.

How does vmware count in this?

Eric