On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:38:29PM -0700, Tom Bradley wrote: > I know that the current maximum number of system calls is 256 and that (as of > 2.4.13) there are 225 system calls (including some dead ones.) Are there any > plans in future version to remove old ones or increase the maximum number? There was quite some discussion about the number of system calls on linux-kernel. I can't remember the exact outcome, but the bottom line was that we approached the maximum number at a high speed. One of the ideas was to create a range of dynamic syscall numbers, much in the same way as you can get a dynamic major number for devices. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
