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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:32:06 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <nick@garage.freebsd.pl>
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Subject: Re: Syscall number.
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 09:45:54AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> +> This is actually a bad way to do things.
> +>
> +> There is a system call loadable module type, and you should
> +> use that instead of directly accessing the system call entry
> +> table and stomping on values without asserting appropriate
> +> locks.
> 
> But I want to operate on existing syscalls.

Then specify a system call number instead of allowing the system to
pick an unassigned system call for you.

-- Terry

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