Missing system call in linux emulation

Steven Hartland killing at barrysworld.com
Tue Aug 12 15:39:24 PDT 2003


Hmm I couldn't even find these until I got to 2.5.X kernel so most strange
they would be using these but I'll contact the dev at DICE to double
check.

Thanks for the info.

    Steve / K
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcel Moolenaar" <marcel at xcllnt.net>
To: "Steven Hartland" <killing at barrysworld.com>
Cc: <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: Missing system call in linux emulation


> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:42:51PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
> > 
> > Any one know how I can track down what function is missing and hence
> > look at fixing it?
> 
> In the linux kernel source tree, look in arch/i386/kernel/entry.S.
> There you'll find all the syscall entry points. Currently they go
> all the way to 271. Also look at arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S...
> 
> Then, in /sys/i386/linux look in syscalls.master.  There you'll
> see we only have syscalls up to 221. See also /sys/alpha/linux...
> 
> One could:
> o  Add proper prototypes to syscalls.master of the 50 new syscalls
>    we don't know about,
> o  Declare all these syscalls as dummies (see linux_dummy.c) to begin
>    with,
> o  Really implement those syscalls that are used in practice.
> 
> Syscall 252 is exit_group(2).




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