Re: [patch] Assigning syscall numbers for testing

Alan Cox
2001-12-24T20:38:06Z

> > 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.

Sorry.. I'm talking about x86 here. Linus is the x86 port maintainer as
well so we have to plan it out that way. For non x86 sure.

Alan