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syscalls.2: Remove crufty text about i386 syscall dispatch table
authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Fri, 12 Apr 2019 08:56:59 +0000 (10:56 +0200)
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Fri, 12 Apr 2019 08:56:59 +0000 (10:56 +0200)
The removed text long ago ceased to be accurate. Nowadays, the
dispatch table is autogenerated when building the kernel (via
the kernel makefile, arch/x86/entry/syscalls/Makefile).

Reported-by: Andreas Korb <andreas.d.korb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
man2/syscalls.2

index 0a9af555612c2ef869c1726669efc2edad6e181c..1c07239412de20ca2f3d9ed0350bd74f0c3d5eb8 100644 (file)
@@ -887,8 +887,6 @@ with number __NR_xxx defined in
 .I /usr/include/asm/unistd.h
 can be found in the Linux kernel source in the routine
 .IR sys_xxx ().
-(The dispatch table for i386 can be found in
-.IR /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S .)
 There are many exceptions, however, mostly because
 older system calls were superseded by newer ones,
 and this has been treated somewhat unsystematically.