Re: Why syscall number changed on 2.6.21 ?

[Paul M. <le...@li...>]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 04:04:34PM +0900, SUGIOKA Toshinobu wrote:
> Syscall number from '__NR_add_key' to '__NR_inotify_rm_watch'
> have been changed in 2.6.21
> 
> So, glibc is now incompatible on latest kernel.
> Why these are changed ?
> 
inotify was there first, and libinotify has been using that number for
some time. It was accidentally renumbered earlier when the key syscalls
went in, so this is just correcting that behaviour.