Syscalls being obsoleted???

Syscalls being obsoleted???

[Maciej Zenczykowski]

I read somewhere that (all) syscalls (as in the method of calling them) 
are being obsoleted, unfortunately this makes for a rather poor search 
term.
Thus the question: is this true and with what is this being replaced?  
[just a link would be sufficient]

Thanks,
MaZe.

Re: Syscalls being obsoleted???

[bert hubert]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:39:16PM +0100, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
> I read somewhere that (all) syscalls (as in the method of calling them) 
> are being obsoleted, unfortunately this makes for a rather poor search 
> term.
> Thus the question: is this true and with what is this being replaced?  
> [just a link would be sufficient]

Your source may be mixed up with sysenter, try googling on that.
Or: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/531/1996

Good luck!

> 
> Thanks,
> MaZe.
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Re: Syscalls being obsoleted???

[Tomasz Torcz]

> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:39:16PM +0100, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
> > I read somewhere that (all) syscalls (as in the method of calling them) 
> > are being obsoleted, unfortunately this makes for a rather poor search 
> > term.
> > Thus the question: is this true and with what is this being replaced?  
> > [just a link would be sufficient]

I think that he meant this phrase in post-halloween-2.5.txt:
#v+
- Calling syscalls by numeric values is deprecated, and will go away
  in the next development series.
#v-

What is new way of calling syscalls?

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Re: Syscalls being obsoleted???

[bert hubert]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 08:21:13PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:

> I think that he meant this phrase in post-halloween-2.5.txt:
> #v+
> - Calling syscalls by numeric values is deprecated, and will go away
>   in the next development series.
> #v-
> 
> What is new way of calling syscalls?

I think this should be sysctls.

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Re: Syscalls being obsoleted???

[Robert Love]

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 14:21, Tomasz Torcz wrote:

> I think that he meant this phrase in post-halloween-2.5.txt:
> #v+
> - Calling syscalls by numeric values is deprecated, and will go away
>   in the next development series.
> #v-
> 
> What is new way of calling syscalls?

I think Dave means "sysctl" here, not syscalls.

Dave, this probably needs changing in the post-halloween-2.5.txt
document.

	Robert Love

Re: Syscalls being obsoleted???

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 07:24:59PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
 > > I think that he meant this phrase in post-halloween-2.5.txt:
 > > #v+
 > > - Calling syscalls by numeric values is deprecated, and will go away
 > >   in the next development series.
 > > #v-
 > > 
 > > What is new way of calling syscalls?
 > 
 > I think Dave means "sysctl" here, not syscalls.

I did.

 > Dave, this probably needs changing in the post-halloween-2.5.txt
 > document.

I did.
Yet again, that amusing case appears where a thinko has been there
for months without anyone noticing, and once I've fixed it everyone
and his dog spots it 8-)

		Dave