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KS2010: A staging process for ABIs

Posted Nov 3, 2010 0:38 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: KS2010: A staging process for ABIs

We have too many system calls

But, but, Linus has been encouraging people to add new syscalls instead of other interaction methods!

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Posted Nov 3, 2010 3:37 UTC (Wed) by arnd (subscriber, #8866) [Link]

Well, we also have too many of the others. I guess it mostly comes down to having too many interfaces of all sorts, syscalls being the more obvious kind.