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Re: Principles for syscall wrappers, again
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 01:17:49 +0000
- Subject: Re: Principles for syscall wrappers, again
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On Mon, 18 May 2015, Rich Felker wrote:
> The big practical questions left are where to expose the interfaces,
> and with what signatures.
All these questions can be resolved in the discussions of the individual
interfaces if and when anyone works on patches to add wrappers for them.
I'm simply trying to get an answer for "when should such wrappers be added
at all?" other than "only for interfaces already in Linux 3.2 / glibc
2.15", along with "what does a complete patch adding such a wrapper look
like?", so there is a common basis for reviewing all such patches.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com