re: Problem with syscall_disestablish() - PR kern/50430

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Paul Goyette writes:
> > i don't think that filemon(4) is done properly or at the right
> > layers.  it should hook directly into the vfs layer itself, not
> > hijack system calls.  it certainly still doesn't work properly
> > for netbds32 binaries or any other binaries.
> >
> > your changes are helpful, but it's still very very broken.
> 
> I agree that it probably needs to be completely re-written if it were
> to be generally useable.  But, given that the only real use-case we
> have for it so far is make(1) (and even then, only in "meta-mode"), I
> think that the re-write effort far out-weighs the benefits.

right, i agree.

it's still not useful for mips64 platforms today -- since those
default to 32 bit binaries on 64 bit kernel.

same with running 32 bit chroot builds on i386.

> Besides, I don't know enough about the vfs layer to get it right!  :)

not too late to learn :-)


.mrg.