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Re: Deprecate and remove SYS_ system call numbers?

On 08/08/2016 04:55 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 08/08/2016 10:47 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Do you have a concrete example of any breakage?
> 
> util-linux did not build because glibc was compiled against kernel
> headers which did not define __NR_sched_setattr, so glibc did not
> provide the SYS_sched_setattr macro.

Rather than deprecating, should the kernel be taking responsibility
for defining SYS_* constants?

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.
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