Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 05:44:05PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > This pig isn't very attractive.  Is a system call number shortage the
> > > underlying problem?  And is the fix to this ultimately about fixing the
> > > syscall number shortage?
> > 
> > grouping several "syscalls" under a single entry is nothting new.
>
> I am aware.  However, I think, e.g., unlinkat(2) should be just like
> unlink(2), from a DTrace syscall provider p.o.v.  Adam called this a
> "pig" for a reason; I agree with that characterization.

These *at*() calls have been defined in 2001, I would guess this is some
time before dtrace came up and truss(1) deals with them....

¯A
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