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Re: [PATCH 3/4] 'catch syscall' feature -- XML support part


On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:19:36PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio?= Durigan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FAnior?= <sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:31:26 -0200
> > 
> > This is the part which adds XML support for the "catch syscall" feature.
> > I decided to put the architecture's XML files here too, so that the
> > architecture-independent part does not grow too much.
> 
> Is the list of syscalls and their numbers kernel version dependent?
> If it is, how will we go about maintaining these files?

Fortunately, it is not.  There are some exceptions in vendor-provided
kernels, but there is a very strong incentive to not reuse or adjust
syscall numbers.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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