--- Andrey Simonenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:19:05PM +0530, Ravi
> Krishna wrote:
>
> > My question is why we store the
> p->p_sysent->sv_table
> > for each process. What is the reason for keeping
> this per process?
> > Are there some situations where two processes can
> have different system calls
> > available?
>
> Processes can have different p_sysent, because the
> kernel supports
> different ABIs. sv_entry (pointer to some system
> call table) is
Sounds rather inefficient to have a per-process table
rather than a set of ABIs into which the per process
table is an indirection (similar to say vnops).
regards
-kamal
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