C'mon guys, some consistency in the opposition at least.
Daniel Taylor
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic@uni-mb.si> said:
> > > Like it or not, syscall numbers *are* policy, and the kernel should
> > > not be
> > > dictating policy. Therefore. the kernel should not be deciding what
> > > numbers are assigned to syscalls. Q.E.D.
>
> syscall numbers are just arbitrary descriptors, on which the kernel and
> libc have to agree. That is all. No policy involved. If you say "Thou
> shallst not use syscall <insert favorite syscall number here> unless thou
> art root" _that_ is policy. Set by POSIX, in this case, _not_ the kernel.
>
> > > Come on.. This has gone crazy.
>
> Yep.
>
> > Yes, but I still want to mention that the same is true
> > for device numbers , I just wont repeat the whole paragraph :-)
>
> Then I won't repeat mine ;-)
>
> No policy involved here either.
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