linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls.

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Message-Id: <1173460802.12760.2.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:20:02 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, rmk@....linux.org.uk, sam@...nborg.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls.

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 17:11 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Of course the existing syscall numbers can't be changed, but for all new 
> calls one could just add automatically for everybody.
> 
> A global table with two entries (compat and non compat) and a per arch 
> override table should be sufficient.

Counterexample: sys_epoll_pwait.

It'd be nice if it were that simple.

It'd also be nice if people stopped thinking it was that simple :)

-- 
dwmw2

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