Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 7 May 2007, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>> You are apparently confused, and do not actually understand the >> direction in which things are going. The issue is mostly not about >> linking; it's about the directions in which people are willing to >> support extensibility. Neither Linux nor Solaris really supports the >> concept of statically linking external modules into the kernel. > I could be confused, but I think it is you who are confused; I think > that because you accept/assert the premise that solaris and linux may > drop dynamic loading of system calls. Obviously, if they do that, they > will have to go back to a static linked kernel for custom system calls. Uh, Linux as of right now, so far as I know, does not support either dynamic linking of system calls *or* static linking of system calls. I believe you have to patch the kernel source to add a new system call. System calls are not how you're supposed to interact with loadable modules on Linux. I don't understand why you'd think that an OS would have to support any addition of system calls by a module at all. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
