Re: A Comment from User Space

From: David Wagner (dawat_private)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 22:09:38 PDT

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    Crispin Cowan  wrote:
    >On the "needs a new system call" issue:  what do people think of proposing
    >that a block of syscall numbers be allocated to LSM?
    
    Good question.  Well, I must admit my first reaction is to be skeptical.
    First question: What is it needed for?
    
    The canonical way to add new ways to interact with the OS is usually not
    to add a new syscall, but rather to add an entry in /proc or somesuch.
    (or at worst add an ioctl() -- ugh!)  What cases isn't this good enough for?
    
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