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SubjectRe: Get rid of them
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Followup to:  <199708221723.NAA13996@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
By author: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I don't know if Linus wants to put this stuff in.
>
> But if he does say yes to it, I suggest we rename the modern syscall
> functions to the real name (ie. without "new" prepended to them).
>

I would suggest not to, since it would introduce yet another
incompatibility. In fact, I would highly vote against this change;
making them a config option I can see (or dependent on a.out support)
but backward compatibility is important for people living in the real
world...

Also, I would prefer a naming convention for syscalls which didn't use
"old" or "new" but rather numbers, say select_2() for the second
version of the select system call, etc.

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