Re: New System call

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 04:24:52AM -0500, Amrith  wrote:
> If a new system call for a general purpose is developed and tested in Fedora distrbution,
> Is it possible to integrate it the kernel.
> 
> If so what is the procedure ?

Pick a system call number, build the relevant test code, make it work,
prove its useful to you or others in your own kernel packages and then
submit the changes to the linux-kernel mailing list and work with the
developers on questions they raise.

If everyone agrees its a useful feature it will then get assigned an official
system call id and get picked up from upstream by the standard kernel