[Vserver] Re: [parisc-linux] syscall number for vserver

Matthew Wilcox willy at debian.org
Thu Dec 18 09:04:50 MST 2003


On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:01:29PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> vserver folks really do not care whether or not the
> syscall is reserved on their architecture, as long 
> as it's there, and it will be there anyway, I just 
> wanted to be polite and correct, so if you 'think'
> we split up the switch just for parisc(64) again, 
> then I can assure you, that just won't happen ...

FYI, Christoph does not control syscall allocations on PA-RISC; I do.
I don't yet have a firm opinion on whether we should allocate this
syscall.  I see both sides of this argument, but personally, I believe
sys_vserver is a mistake.

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