Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:16:21 +0200 | From | "Bart Van Assche" <> | Subject | Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for itself |
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Jinkai Gao <mickeygjk@gmail.com> wrote: > Why the number of system calls is growing? because the kernel is > growing. why we don't use the alternatives to implement the new need > for system calls? Because it doesn't make any sense. We can't ignore > the kernel modules' need for system calls just because they are > loadable.
Arjan and Jan have already explained in detail why adding system calls dynamically is troublesome.
Bart.
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