Subject: Re: Syscall number space
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/26/2007 23:11:56
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:54:04 -0700
Darren Reed <darrenr@NetBSD.org> wrote:


> What do we do when we run out of system calls available to us?
> (ie 0-512 is all "allocated")

The obvious hack is to make 511 (or whichever) a metacall, where the
first parameter is an int with the extended number....
> 
> And lastly...
> Have any of the said vendors contributed back to NetBSD ?
> (Or in other words, why should we care about *them* ? >:-)
> 
They use NetBSD....

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb