Re: [PATCH] <bits/syscall.h>: Use an arch-independent system call list on Linux

[Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>]

I do not object to bounding the SYS_* API exported by glibc to a set of 
system calls known to that glibc version.

I do object to having a test we know will fail when someone builds glibc 
with a newer set of kernel headers than that version of glibc.  That is, I 
think the test should allow extra __NR_* if the kernel headers have a 
newer (major.minor) version number than the kernel version listed in 
syscall-names.list.  That way, the test is still effective in development 
as long as people update the kernel number when adding syscalls to the 
file or doing other new-kernel-version updates, without causing spurious 
failures for people building past release versions / branches of glibc.

I'd expect LC_ALL=C to have to be set when running the various awk scripts 
(at least those depending in any way on the ordering of the syscall list).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com