Re: [PATCH 3/4] 'catch syscall' feature -- XML support part

Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04T22:27:03Z

> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:22:25 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio_Durigan_J=FAnior?= <sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
> gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > Is the list of syscalls and their numbers kernel version dependent?
> > If it is, how will we go about maintaining these files?
>
> Fortunately, it is not. There are some exceptions in vendor-provided
> kernels, but there is a very strong incentive to not reuse or adjust
> syscall numbers.

Does this mean we can be sure no new syscalls will be added to the
list, ever?