SchOS/.claude/memory/schunix-syscall-single-table.md
Nexoniarz a1c965da1e include: one folder per subsystem, and includes that name it
Sixty-five headers sat side by side in include/, so `#include "irq.h"`
said nothing about where irq.h was or what it belonged to, and errno.h,
stat.h and fcntl.h at the top shadowed the system's for any host tool
built with -I./include. They are in folders now -- arch/ core/ fs/
dev/ gfx/ net/ uapi/ (and ldls/ for the Linux driver layer) -- and
every include names the folder, as Linux's do: "core/proc.h".

Done mechanically and checked the hard way: the kernel built from this
tree disassembles identically to the one built from the tree before
it. The full image boots, and userland is the same set of programs.
Paths in docs and comments follow; docs/guides/layout.md has a table
of what is where, and tools/fix-includes.py rewrites old-style
includes from the folders in the tree, for code written before this.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S1giNvrHTrPMPw7V6x1kQ4
2026-10-23 15:05:12 +02:00

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---
name: schunix-syscall-single-table
description: Syscalls are declared once in kernel/sys/table.inc — never hand-edit linux_abi.c
metadata:
node_type: memory
type: project
originSessionId: d1a1ea76-f919-411c-b0ef-0e1bc5064563
modified: 2026-08-01T19:34:55.691Z
---
Since 2026-08-01 a Schunix syscall is declared in exactly **one** place:
```
SYSCALL(nr, linux_nr, name) // kernel/sys/table.inc
SYSCALL_ALIAS(linux_nr, name) // extra Linux number -> existing handler
```
and implemented as `SYSCALL_DEFINE(name) { ... }` in a `kernel/sys/sys_*.c`.
Generated from that one line: the `SYS_*` enum (`include/core/syscall.h`), the
dispatch table (`kernel/sys/syscall.c`), and the Linux ABI translation map
(`kernel/sys/linux_abi.c`).
**Why:** it used to take three edits in two files — a `table.inc` line, a
`#define LINUX_foo N`, and a map entry. Forgetting the second file left the
syscall unreachable from every musl-linked program while looking correctly
registered. `linux_abi.c` went from 361 hand-written lines to 34 generated ones.
**How to apply:** never add anything to `linux_abi.c` — there is nothing to
edit there. `NO_LINUX` marks a syscall with no Linux equivalent; all such
entries collide on scratch index 511, which is never dispatched.
184 syscalls, 150 with Linux numbers, 7 aliases (vfork→fork, preadv→readv, …).
See [[schunix-linux-abi-decision]] — dropping the native ABI entirely is still
the plan; this refactor is the prerequisite, not a replacement for it.