Re: [patch] Assigning syscall numbers for testing

Andreas Steinmetz
2001-12-24T23:48:05Z

On 24-Dec-2001 Edgar Toernig wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 07:05:31PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > > it. However, I think it needs to be allocated *regardless* of whether
>> > > Linus
>> > > takes the patch into his kernel. Even if the patch is simply used
>> > > outside
>> > > Linus's kernel, it still needs the allocation to truly be safe.
>> >
>> > Negative numbers are safe until Linus has 2^31 syscalls, at which point
>> > quite frankly we would have a few other problems including the fact that
>> > the syscall table won't fit in kernel mapped memory.
>>
>> Please leave the allocation of the exact number space to the port
>> maintainers discression.
>
> Why not assign 1 syscall that gets the name of an experimental syscall
> as its first argument and does the demultiplexing?
>

Please, no multiplexing. A well defined range (small as it may be) open to
developers (and thus collision) will do.

> Ciao, ET.
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Andreas Steinmetz
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