Emmanuel Colbus wrote: > I have a question regarding vector 0x80. > > As I mentionned earlier, my OS's internals are very different from > Linux's, thus I have had a need for a few new syscalls. Since I wanted > to avoid any collision with Linux
... you could just use another vector, such as 0x81. > but I also wanted to keep the ability to put the syscall table in > a single 4096-byte page on 64-bit computers (on which I hope to run > one day), I chose to start taking syscall number 511, and to progress > downwards - currently, I'm using numbers 511 through 501 included These implementation details do not need to show up in the interface: int syscall_0x81(int nr, ...) { if (nr in range) return table[511 - nr](...); } Regards, Clemens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/