From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Assigning syscall numbers for testing
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 13:23:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C2772B1.3080202@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0112240951030.24605-100000@dlang.diginsite.com>
David Lang wrote:
> so this just means that an eye needs to be kept on the non-dynamic
> syscalls and up the starting point for dynamic syscalls significantly
> before we run out of space for the non-dynamic ones.
>
> running software that depends on features in a new kernel on a
> significantly older kernel is always questionable, if you software really
> needs to do that you need to watch for a bunch of things.
No. This is different. Calling a syscall and expecting to get either A)
the syscall you intended or B) -ENOSYS is an accepted, safe practice under
Unix/Linux. This breaks that practice.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-24 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-22 11:28 [patch] Assigning syscall numbers for testing Keith Owens
2001-12-22 14:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-22 14:32 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-22 19:01 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-22 23:18 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-22 23:25 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-23 0:02 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-23 4:04 ` Chris Vandomelen
2001-12-23 5:10 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-23 17:06 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-23 19:15 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-24 1:01 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-24 16:52 ` Doug Ledford
2001-12-24 17:11 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-24 17:06 ` Doug Ledford
2001-12-24 17:34 ` David Lang
2001-12-24 18:13 ` Doug Ledford
2001-12-24 17:54 ` David Lang
2001-12-24 18:23 ` Doug Ledford [this message]
2001-12-26 16:22 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-25 2:18 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-25 10:00 ` Russell King
2001-12-24 18:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-24 18:16 ` Doug Ledford
2001-12-24 19:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-24 19:31 ` Russell King
2001-12-24 20:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-24 23:28 ` Edgar Toernig
2001-12-24 23:43 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2001-12-22 20:51 ` Davide Libenzi
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2001-12-22 11:35 Keith Owens
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