Wherefore 'socketcall'?

Mike Coleman (mkc@kc.net)
18 Dec 1999 18:32:28 -0600

Does anyone know why the system calls having to do with sockets were
multiplexed together into 'socketcall'? This seems kind of noxious.

I can't seem to find any comments about it, but I have the feeling that it was
done to save on syscall entries. Is this true? Is there some reason why
linux is limited to ~256 syscalls?

Thanks for any hints,
--Mike

-- 
Any sufficiently adverse technology is indistinguishable from Microsoft.


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