Re: [PATCH] Read only syscall tables for x86_64 and i386

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2005-06-28T19:45:14Z

Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> writes:

> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
>> It would probably be better implemented with a more generic mechanism,
>> but I don't believe anyone is working on that now, so it looks like AFS
>> will continue to use a special syscall.

> We could put an #ifdef CONFIG_AFS into the syscall table definition?
> That makes it explicit.

I haven't looked much at the AFS support in the mainline kernel,
but I believe it is read-only support, and doesn't support
authentication. It may well have no need for a system call.

I was actually referring to the OpenAFS implementation, which is built
separately from the kernel as a module; thus, the #ifdef CONFIG_AFS
would not work. An additional configuration option could be added, but
I'm not sure that is a good idea.

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard