Re: intercepting syscalls

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Apr 18 2005 - 11:32:37 EST


On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:20:06PM -0400, Igor Shmukler wrote:
> I don't think that drivers have to be architecture independent. Why is
> this a problem?

Actually, yes a driver should generally be architecture independent.
There's some exception for things dealing with lowlevel architecture-
dependent things.

> I would even agree that it might be beneficial to develop guidelines
> for developing stackable modules that intercept system calls, but I
> think that reasons beyond races are of less importance.

No, because we have no interest in supporting that. Explain is your
problem and show us the code and we might find a better design.

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