tech-kern: Re: where do system calls from userland start

Subject: Re: where do system calls from userland start
To: Travis H. <solinym@gmail.com>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/25/2006 13:54:26

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On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:49:41PM -0500, Travis H. wrote:
> For modifying an extant system call, it
> could check to see how many arguments are on the stack and branching
> appropriately, even though it's ugly.

We have a syscall versioning mechanism for exactly this purpose.

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Dan.

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