Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] dynamic syscalls revisited | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:14:19 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 20:14 -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Steven Rostedt wrote: > > It can be easier to send the wrong command to a device, or even the > > wrong device than to use a wrong system call. > > So invent some /dev/syscall/<syscall-device-name> and you've reduced > this to good old clashes in a flat name space. You can hide all the > ugliness, sanity checking, etc. in a library. >
Already working on something. But I was a little distracted by some real work :-) But I'll have a little device driver that can implement dynamic system calls soon, and a library that will hide the real ugliness.
> I also think that a more direct approach for dynamic syscalls would > be nice, but the current status quo is far from unbearable. > > > - Werner > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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