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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Daniel Eischen wrote:
> I'd like to try and get his implemented in this next
> round of changes.  If you are going to add a system
> call, it's easy enough just to call the guts of it
> from kse_create().

FWIW: One trick would be to use an "invalid" value for one of the
parameters on the existing call to mux you into an alternate
implementsion (which could even take additional parameters, for
obvious reasons).

-- Terry