Re: Syscall by name

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
01 Apr 2002 22:39:52 -0700


Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:

> On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Max wrote:
>
> > 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
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