Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:22:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to add new system calls... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980415091751.27192C-100000@terra> In-Reply-To: <199804150012.KAA07660@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, John Birrell wrote: > The answer depends on whether or not you are running -current. > For 2.2.x, you do need to edit /usr/src/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc. > For -current, the syscalls will be automatically built into libc by > declaring them in syscalls.master, executing makesyscalls.sh and then > doing a make obj, depend, all and install from /usr/src/lib/libc. And boy is this slick. At the extreme linux workshop one issue that came up was the difficulty of adding system calls to linux. It's quite messy. I pointed out that I thought freebsd was a real leader in this area, but, (and this is strange) the counter-argument from some of the linux folks was that they didn't want to see people "corrupting the purity of the system call namespace" (those actual words ...). ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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