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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: chuli <chul@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 'linux-audit' <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Question about max syscall number
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:58:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808050958.03375.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004701c8f6ca$bca8b9a0$958da70a@truly>

On Tuesday 05 August 2008 03:13:14 chuli wrote:
> > We allow this because its possible that someone could write a kernel
> > module (maybe not in Linus tree)  that adds syscall numbers.
>
>   I see. Will it be added in the manual?

I suppose I could add a few words. But I don't want to go too far with this 
since I am yet to see a module in the main line that does this. I don't want 
to emphasize something that is rare, or only theoretically possible but in 
practice doesn't exist.


>   If I add a syscall whose number is 1000 in x86, such syscall can also be
> auditd. 

Sure.


> And If I use ausearch -i -sc 1000 to lookup the log, the result is 
> " syscall=unknown syscall(1000)".  Is it should be interpreted in the
> manual?

There is no way to intepret it. We don't know what it is.

-Steve

      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-05 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-31  3:18 Question about max syscall number chuli
2008-08-04  3:06 ` [PATCH]Fix the bug about checking the " chuli
2008-08-04 19:46 ` Question about max " Steve Grubb
2008-08-05  7:13   ` chuli
2008-08-05 13:58     ` Steve Grubb [this message]

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