support for calling Linux syscalls directly

H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com
Tue Feb 12 18:57:00 GMT 2013


On 02/12/2013 10:41 AM, chrubis@suse.cz wrote:
>>
>> That is what the uapi is for.
>
> That looks really good, but I have two questions.
>
> Is this rasonably usable or still being worked on? The last source of
> infomation about the work seems to be LWN article from July 2012.
>

It is very much actively worked on.

> Will this headers be available in separate repo so that changes can be
> periodically pulled into the LTP? (I guess I can just copy then from
> kernel repo from time to time but having more reliable source would
> probably be better.)

No.

	-hpa

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