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Re: glibc at the Toolchains microconference at LPC 2019

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 05:04:52PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
[...]
> Could you please review the language here:
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Consensus#WIP:_Kernel_syscalls_wrappers

I suggest adding that there is no need to add wrappers for those syscalls
that already have dedicated libraries.

For example, such multiplexers as bpf(2) and keyctl(2) already have
dedicated libraries (libbpf and libkeyutils, respectively) that provide
APIs on top of these raw syscalls.

keyctl(2) manual page explicitly says that "rather than using this system
call directly, you probably want to use the various library functions
mentioned in the descriptions of individual operations".


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