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Re: [PATCH] <bits/syscall.h>: Use an arch-independent system call list on Linux
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 10:00:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] <bits/syscall.h>: Use an arch-independent system call list on Linux
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On Apr 05 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> Downstream, we have the problem that we need to deliver our glibc packages
> before the kernel team finishes backporting system calls. This means that
> the final glibc build before a release does not contain all the SYS_*
> macros supported by the kernel headers.
Why can't you just patch the kernel headers package? With the uapi
separation the kernel headers are pretty much independent of the kernel.
Andreas.
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