Re: system call

[Keith Owens]

On 09 Jul 2002 01:59:42 +0200, 
Vladimir Zidar <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 17:16, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>>   http://www.xenotime.net/linux/syscall_ex/
>> contains a howto, kernel patch, and test program.
>
> And how to choose goot syscall number ? Are some numbers pre-reserved
>to 'private' syscalls ? What numbers are free to use, without fear that
>new kernel release will just jump over them !?
> And what about an idea to be able to add syscall by name, from loadab;e
>module of course.  Userland application will then resolve 'name' to
>number at startup, and use it just as ordinary syscall ?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=100902098800001&r=1&w=2.  There were
alternative patches going around, primarily from Benjamin LaHaise.
Linus did not want any of the patches.