Subject: Re: Linux emulation and not implemented syscalls
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/16/1999 16:09:11
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> In message <7p9vcd$q67$1@colwyn.zhadum.de>Matthias Scheler writes:
> >Should we modify sys_nosys() not to signal() a process if it is an
> >Linux emulation process?
> 
> even better, create a linux_nosys() which DTRT for Linux, and frob
> mksyscalls.sh to add (optional) prefixing for UNIMPL syscalls, then
> add a nosys-prefixing line to the Linux syscalls.conf to make it
> emit linux_nosys()  for UNIMPL syscalls, instead of nosys().

We'd also need to catch off-the-table syscalls too (ones not listed in
syscalls.conf but still unimplimented).

Take care,

Bill