* Ulrich Drepper: > Florian Weimer wrote: >> It would help if GNU libc provided means to invoke new syscalls. > > And what do you think the syscall() function is for? Stop complaining > if you have no clue. Uh-oh, thanks. Seems as if I got distracted by the countless non-portable uses of the _syscallN macros. Unfortunately, hardly anybody uses the syscall function.