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On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 15:34 -0400, Jason Baron wrote:

> Actually, looking at this further, what we probably want to do change
> the "int nb_args" field, which is already in syscall_metadata into a bit
> field. nb_args I think can be at most 6, or 3 bits, and we only need 4
> bits for storing the enabled/disabled data, so we could even make it a
> char. Thus, actually saving space with this patch :) (at least as far as
> the syscall_metadata field is concerned).

Yeah, I'm fine with turning that into a count/flags field.

-- Steve