Re: Syscall by name

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 14:50:47 EST


On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Max wrote:

> I saw several months ago here a message, telling about a new system call,
> that returnes a syscall number, by its name. So, if a module registers a
> new syscall dynamically, it is automatically seen by everybody.
> Is this idea dead?

It's stillborn - modules are not (and will not be) allowed to add syscalls.
Case closed.

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