Re: Syscalls being obsoleted???

From: Tomasz Torcz
Date: Sat Nov 08 2003 - 14:21:57 EST


> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:39:16PM +0100, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
> > I read somewhere that (all) syscalls (as in the method of calling them)
> > are being obsoleted, unfortunately this makes for a rather poor search
> > term.
> > Thus the question: is this true and with what is this being replaced?
> > [just a link would be sufficient]

I think that he meant this phrase in post-halloween-2.5.txt:
#v+
- Calling syscalls by numeric values is deprecated, and will go away
in the next development series.
#v-

What is new way of calling syscalls?

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