Re: [RFC] dynamic syscalls revisited

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> I've seen previous attempts to get dynamic system calls into the kernel
>> and they just get dumped, but usually with good reason.  They require a
>> change to all architectures quite drastically and is usually a problem
>> implementing them for the module to use them.
>
>Actually they were dumped because dynamically syscalls are a really bad
>idea, not because of implementation issues.

I do not see how dsyscalls could be better than static ones, so they are
one-on-one. Maybe someone could elaborate why they are "a really bad idea"?



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