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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Max <ertzog@bk.ru>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Syscall by name
Date: 01 Apr 2002 22:39:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1r8lyu09j.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0204011449560.10933-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>

Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:

> On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Max wrote:
> 
> > I saw several months ago here a message, telling about a new system call,
> > that returnes a syscall number, by its name. So, if a module registers a
> > new syscall dynamically, it is automatically seen by everybody.
> > Is this idea dead?
> 
> It's stillborn - modules are not (and will not be) allowed to add syscalls.
> Case closed.

How does vmware count in this?

Eric

      reply	other threads:[~2002-04-02  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-24 21:31 Syscall by name Max
2002-04-01 19:50 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-02  5:39   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]

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