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Re: Principles for syscall wrappers, again
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 10:12:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: Principles for syscall wrappers, again
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Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> writes:
> That may be how it's used internally in glibc, but not elsewhere.
Of course, since the API doesn't exist yet.
> And that API lacks important things like the private/shared
> distinction and features beyond basic wait/wake..
Use your imagination.
Andreas.
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