inotify support.

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Mon Aug 22 06:53:00 GMT 2005


* Roland McGrath:

> libc supports things of general use and with ABI compatibility, more or
> less forever.  This is a specialized facility whose details are not all
> that unlikely to change.  The more things thrown into libc, the harder it
> is to usefully track the real dependencies programs have on interfaces.

It would help if GNU libc provided means to invoke new syscalls.
Right now, it seems that all the knowledge about kernel ABIs is
concentrated there, but it's not exported to users.  Of course, it is
possible to copy source code, but this is hardly desirable.



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