> Nobody can write a syscall with more than 8 arguments and this is conceptually
> wrong. In my opinion this is a mistake, no assumptions might be done on
I'd argue that a syscall with 9 or more arguments is conceptually
wrong in the first place. Anything with that many knobs needs to be an
object, not a simple list of parameters. In other words, you should
bundle the parameters up into a struct, and pass a pointer to the
struct.
Take a look at namei (which used to have a very long argument list)
for an example of what I mean.
<mike
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