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Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Daniel Colascione <dancol at google dot com>
- Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs dot Nagy at arm dot com>, Dave P Martin <Dave dot Martin at arm dot com>, nd <nd at arm dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, Joel Fernandes <joelaf at google dot com>, Linux API <linux-api at vger dot kernel dot org>, Willy Tarreau <w at 1wt dot eu>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse dot cz>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:47:57 +0000
- Subject: Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> A good demonstration of a new commitment to pragmatism would be
> merging the trivial wrappers for gettid(2).
I support the addition of gettid (for use with those syscalls that take
tids, and with appropriate documentation explaining the properties of
tids) - and, generally, wrappers for all non-obsolescent
architecture-independent Linux kernel syscalls, including ones that are
very Linux-specific, except maybe for a few interfaces fundamentally
inconsistent with glibc managing TLS etc. - they are, at least, no worse
as a source of APIs than all the old BSD / SVID interfaces we have from
when those were used as sources of APIs.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com