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Forum: How System Calls Work on Linux/i86
Re: More question RE: syscalls on 2.o.x & up (Tim Hockin)
Keywords: syscall system call
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 12:30:46 GMT
From: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

I suggest that you not take over the .long 0,0 directive in there; it's there to reserve a system call number for a system call that is installed via a module (or some other kernel patch). Add it after sys_vm86, then change 166 to 167 in the .space directive.