Re: [RFC] dynamic syscalls revisited

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.53.0411291740390.30846@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> I do not see how dsyscalls could be better than static ones, so they are
> one-on-one. Maybe someone could elaborate why they are "a really bad idea"?
> 

Because we already have a name resolution mechanism in the kernel,
called the filesystem?  We also have a mechanism for ad hoc system
calls, it's called ioctl().

And before you go "but ioctl() sucks": dynamic syscalls suck for
*exactly* the same reasons.

	-hpa
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