Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:12:09PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> 
>  (1) A death-knell callback list to be placed in the task structure. Each
>      function so listed (if any) would be invoked upon exit, signal-death or
>      execve.

The SGI accounting project (and other accouting projects which are underway)
will need similar hooks, so it is not even only required for Wine.

> 
>  (2) Some sort of support for (dynamically allocated) system calls implemented
>      in modules.

Well, that already exists. It is called ioctl. How would the user look up
dynamically allocated system calls anyways, assuming multiple modules etc.? 
Ioctls have that name space probably already neatly solved.



-Andi
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