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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 1995 14:50:05 -0700
From:      Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   kern/490: 2.0.5-ALPHA should change msync(2) syscall number for compatibility
Message-ID:  <199506052150.OAA11192@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 6 Jun 95 06:48:15 JST <9506052148.AA05085@sran230.sra.co.jp>

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>Number:         490
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       2.0.5-ALPHA should change msync(2) syscall number for compatibility
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun  5 14:50:03 1995
>Originator:     Noriyuki Soda
>Organization:
Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950527 i386
>Environment:

environment independent.

>Description:

msync(2) argument is changed from
	msync(addr, len)
to
	msync(addr, len, flags)
in 2.0.5-ALPHA.
So I think we should allocate new syscall number for new msync(2), and
reserve syscall 65 as omsync(2), for compatibility to old BSD binary.

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