From 38368072b37bf73dda26dac536e4aa6cf13c67e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:41:16 +0100 Subject: system_call: New. --- extensibility.mdwn | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'extensibility.mdwn') diff --git a/extensibility.mdwn b/extensibility.mdwn index 01b1f3b1..17cd5e51 100644 --- a/extensibility.mdwn +++ b/extensibility.mdwn @@ -1,17 +1,18 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] An extensible system is one that enables extensibility. Enabling extensibility means providing non-privileged mechanisms to extend existing objects and to introduce new objects. [[UNIX]] is generally not an extensible system as it does -not generally facilitate the hooking of system calls. For instance, there is +not generally facilitate the hooking of [[system call]]s. For instance, there is no way to hook into the virtual file system. This has motivated the introduction of separate, parallel interfaces by both the GNOME and KDE projects to provide users a more integrated view of their objects. -- cgit v1.2.3