>Is there any other benefit only achieved by removing those from the >sysent table? If not, my preference would be to leave 'open' and >friends alone for now, resolving that with kernel function calls >instead. If we reach the point of needing the additional slot entries >freed up by those, that work can be done along with a true man(2)- >equivalent syscall provider.
Will this not also disable SunOS 4 binary compatibility? I seem to remember that the binary compatibility runs some old system calls before it starts calling the kernel through the native libraries? Casper