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On Fri, 2 May 2014 15:49:35 -0400
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:


> I may have a vested interest in syscalls :)
> 
> The rate we're adding them has slowed down, but the rate at which we're
> finding bugs exposed through them has accelerated enormously over the
> last few years.

Well, besides perf, I'm sure the acceleration of finding bugs wasn't
due to system calls adding more of them, but because we now have much
better ways of finding bugs (yes this is a kudos to your trinity).

-- Steve