Remove entries from sysdeps/unix/sysv/syscalls.list duplicating ones in sysdeps/unix/

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Sat May 5 19:27:00 GMT 2012


On Sat, 5 May 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> Why do we have a syscalls.list in sysv if linux is the only user?

Because once there was support for othere "SysV-like" (indeed, actual 
SysV) systems in glibc.

The point of this patch series relating to sysdeps/unix/sysv/syscalls.list 
is to end up removing the file completely.  I think two more patches after 
the present one should do it (one for more syscalls that are overridden 
for Linux, one to merge the remainder into 
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list).  Then sysdeps/unix/sysv/ will 
purely be a container for sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/, even if it's not worth 
the disruption of actually removing the sysv/ directory level and using 
sysdeps/unix/linux instead.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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