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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:05:06 -0700
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <436324C6.5040107@portaone.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes:
> 
> 
>>>I'm not sure I see much difference between a shared library and this
>>>solution, but I'm equally sure we'd love to se a prototype before
>>>we judge it :-)
>>
>>Difference is that you won't have additional problems with userland and 
>>kernel versions mismatch and don't need any additional complexity 
>>associated with versioning/fallback logic.
> 
> 
> So why don't we implement all the syscalls this way if we have to go
> down that route anyway ?

This is what I am suggesting actually.

-Maxim