From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 15 06:23:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22518 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA22511 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:23:31 GMT (envelope-from rminnich@Sarnoff.COM) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA27357; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:22:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:22:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@terra To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to add new system calls... In-Reply-To: <199804150012.KAA07660@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, John Birrell wrote: > The answer depends on whether or not you are running -current. > For 2.2.x, you do need to edit /usr/src/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc. > For -current, the syscalls will be automatically built into libc by > declaring them in syscalls.master, executing makesyscalls.sh and then > doing a make obj, depend, all and install from /usr/src/lib/libc. And boy is this slick. At the extreme linux workshop one issue that came up was the difficulty of adding system calls to linux. It's quite messy. I pointed out that I thought freebsd was a real leader in this area, but, (and this is strange) the counter-argument from some of the linux folks was that they didn't want to see people "corrupting the purity of the system call namespace" (those actual words ...). ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message