How to make glibc support custom syscalls

Matt McCutchen hashproduct@gmail.com
Sun May 7 17:53:00 GMT 2006


On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 04:48 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> if your versions have the same API as the current chmod/utimes, then you 
> should just be able to update the sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list
> 
> add two lines to that file ... see the sysdeps/unix/syscalls.list file to see 
> what sort of two lines by looking at the existing chmod/utimes lines

Marvelous!  The new glibc works!  I recompiled rsync, it noticed lchmod
and lutimes, and it preserved symlink permissions and times.  Next up is
customizing chmod, touch, etc. to support -h.

Many thanks!

Matt



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