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Re: [PATCH 1/4] 'catch syscall' feature -- Architecture-independent part
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 06:18:24AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This level is IMO uninteresting, because many important system
> services on Windows are not in the kernel space.
But those aren't system calls; the terminology I'm accustomed to is
quite specific, a system call is a trap from user to kernel mode.
Should we make the description of 'catch syscall' more clear to
exclude other OS facilities?
Trapping on other kinds of Windows events would be a nice feature,
but I don't think it's this same feature. We have other kinds of
catchpoints (e.g. for Ada exceptions); I think that's the right place
to add Windows system services, if someone contributes an
implementation to catch them.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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