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Re: Principles for syscall wrappers, again
- From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 14:48:17 -0300
- Subject: Re: Principles for syscall wrappers, again
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On 22-05-2015 11:30, Joseph Myers wrote:
> Does anyone have any comments on these proposed principles
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-05/msg00351.html>? Especially
> those who objected to my previous suggestion of a more general default to
> adding such wrappers.
>
I think your points are reasonable and I see no impose arguments
about not use it the guideline for future wrappers. How should
we document this principles for future references: a documentation
file in source code or just wiki entry in sourceware.org?
Also, for arch-specific syscalls, should we apply to same principles
or may the maintainer be able to discuss more specific points (for
instance, the usage is limited to a set of programs/libraries)?