aio_mlock(2) system call
Konstantin Belousov
kostikbel at gmail.com
Tue Jun 4 05:20:04 UTC 2013
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 01:29:13AM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 07:12:55PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> K> We traditionally do not reuse the gaps in the syscall table, but add
> K> new syscalls at the end.
>
> Hmm. I did that because I wanted to be all aio_* grouped together. Why not?
The aio_* syscalls are already split between several number sequences.
I suspect that we try to not use the holes in the syscall table as
small gratis to the third-party users. Also, there was probably an
attempt to keep NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD syscall numbers out of conflict,
which obviously failed already.
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