Re: syscall convention

From: jmjonesat_private
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 15:13:41 PDT

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    On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, David Wheeler wrote:
    
    > Rather than create an IANA for magic numbers, why not just have a convention
    > where the magic number is the first 32 bits of the MD5 hash of the name?
    > Then the magic number for "selinux" is "0xf97cff8c", as determined by:
    >   echo -n 'selinux' | md5sum | head --bytes=8; echo
    > 
    
    Sounds great to me...
    J. Melvin Jones
    
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