> 
> Obviously, this requires also having the old call gate, for programs
> compiled for previous versions of NetBSD, and for 386BSD, BSDI, iBCS2,
> and SVR4.  Note that Linux currently uses a trap gate, as far as I
> know.
> 
I thought Linux used an INT for syscalls. If it does, be sure not to
pick the same one. Someday I'd like to see COMPAT_LINUX to run doom :-).

> Does anyone have serious objections to this?
> 


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