OpenBSD: Removing syscall(2) from libc and kernel

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    Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official CVS src repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the tech@ mailing list.

    • OpenBSD developers are making serious effort to kill off indirect syscalls, the base system is completely clean, take a look at the work Andrew Fresh did to adapt Perl. He write a complete syscall "dispatcher" or emulator for the Perl syscall function so that it calls the libc stubs.

    https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/312e26c80be876012ae979...

    The ports tree is also being cleansed of syscall(2) usage, until they're all gone.

    msyscall, pinsyscall, recent mandatory IBT/BTI, xonly. OpenBSD is making waves, but people aren't really seeing them yet.

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