Apparatus, system, and method for supplementing outdated versions of operating systems to facilitate upgrades

A method comprising:

• detecting an incoming package that facilitates upgrading at least one component associated with an operating system (OS) that is installed on a computing device and supports a plurality of intrinsic system calls accommodated in a table in kernel space;
• identifying a version of the OS installed on the computing device;
• identifying the component as being compatible with a different version of the OS based at least in part on the incoming package;
• in response to determining that the component is compatible with the different version of the OS, supplementing the version of the OS to support at least one extrinsic system call available in the different version of the OS by:
• allocating, in the kernel space, an extrinsic system call table that accommodates the extrinsic system call and is isolated from the table;
• or
• patching, in the kernel space, the table to accommodate the extrinsic system call in addition to the plurality of intrinsic system calls;
• and
• upgrading the component upon supplementing the version of the OS to support the extrinsic system call.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processing device, cause the processing device to:

• detect an incoming package that facilitates upgrading at least one component associated with an operating system (OS) that is installed on a computing device and supports a plurality of intrinsic system calls accommodated in a table in kernel space;
• identify a version of the OS installed on the computing device;
• identify the component as being compatible with a different version of the OS based at least in part on the incoming package;
• supplement the version of the OS to support at least one extrinsic system call available in the different version of the OS in response to determining that the component is compatible with the different version of the OS by:
• allocating, in the kernel space, an extrinsic system call table that accommodates the extrinsic system call and is isolated from the table;
• or
• patching, in the kernel space, the table to accommodate the extrinsic system call in addition to the plurality of intrinsic system calls;
• and
• upgrade the component upon supplementing the version of the OS to support the extrinsic system call.