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Re: Move some *at definitions to syscalls.list (bug 14138)
- From: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:03:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: Move some *at definitions to syscalls.list (bug 14138)
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:16:32PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Continuing the move of syscall definitions to syscalls.list, where the
> removal of support for old kernel versions has made this possible,
> this patch moves definitions of various *at functions in
> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/.
I think this is premature. Some of these functions, especially
fchmodat, have serious bug reports open against them which cannot be
fixed if they're pure syscall wrappers. See:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14578
Rich