From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] dynamic syscalls revisited
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:14:49 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041214201449.A4527@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102372715.25841.227.camel@localhost.localdomain>; from rostedt@goodmis.org on Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 05:38:35PM -0500
Steven Rostedt wrote:
> It can be easier to send the wrong command to a device, or even the
> wrong device than to use a wrong system call.
So invent some /dev/syscall/<syscall-device-name> and you've reduced
this to good old clashes in a flat name space. You can hide all the
ugliness, sanity checking, etc. in a library.
I also think that a more direct approach for dynamic syscalls would
be nice, but the current status quo is far from unbearable.
- Werner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-14 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-29 15:11 [PATCH][RFC] dynamic syscalls revisited Steven Rostedt
2004-11-29 15:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-29 15:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-11-30 19:30 ` Kristian Sørensen
2004-11-29 16:41 ` [RFC] " Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-29 17:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-05 23:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-06 16:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 17:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 17:32 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-06 17:57 ` linux-os
2004-12-06 18:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 18:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-07 0:20 ` Michael Buesch
2004-12-07 0:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-06 22:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-06 22:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-14 23:14 ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
2004-12-15 2:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-15 3:35 ` Steven Rostedt
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