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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:46:38 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
       torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a stub by which a module can bind to the AFS syscall
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 03:02:11PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 02:44:54PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Linus,
> > 
> > This patch makes it possible for a module to bind safely to the AFS syscall,
> > without having to modify the syscall table directly.
> 
> Umm, you're adding a handler so that a module can register a variadic
> multiplexer syscall??  I think you need to rething your design..

It's better than the alternative, having OpenAFS patch the system
call table itself... ;-)

	Jeff