Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:30:52AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Module Name:	src
> Committed By:	christos
> Date:		Thu Sep 24 14:30:52 UTC 2015
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	src/sys/kern: makesyscalls.sh
> 
> Log Message:
> create an array of altsyscallnames, which are the syscall names that the
> libc api uses. For example syscallnames[293] = "__sigprocmask14",
> altsyscallnames[293] = "sigprocmask". This is so that things like dtrace
> can use the system call names everyone uses. The array is sparse; if the
> names were the same (or for compat names) they are not copied and the array
> has NULL for them.

Hmmmm....
Isn't that going to be even more confusing since you won't know
whether a 'compat' (or old) system call is being used which might
have issues in the compatibility layer itself.

	David

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