Re: MOSIX and kernel mods.

Steve Dunham (dunham@cse.msu.edu)
16 Mar 1999 14:34:15 -0500


Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> writes:

> On 16-Mar-99 Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> >> Now, if DIPC/MOSIX requires a kernel module and perhaps some system
> >> calls, I don't mind if they are allocated some slots in the syscall
> >> table (just like we did for STREAMS). But anything else should stay
> >> out of the kernel.
> >
> > I doubt Linus would allocate a system call for binary-only code.
>
> ...except AFS.
>
> asm-i386/unistd.h:
> #define __NR_afs_syscall 137 /* Syscall for Andrew File System */

There is a GPL implementation:

http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/

Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu

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