support for calling Linux syscalls directly

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/12/2013 10:58 AM, chrubis@suse.cz wrote:
>
> But in reality I often end up with several testcases broken the same way
> because they shared common ancestors and were copied all over with just
> a slight modification. Complicated pieces of code are simply not worth
> of duplication. I would rather have single place where I can fix bug in
> way how syscall done because this code is complicated enough and does
> exactly the same work in each project.
>
> There are, on the other hand, duplications that makes sense because the
> resulting projects have different objectives. In LTP posix conformance
> tests overlaps fairly with libc tests, which is fine.
>

If you want generic system call stubs you may want to look at the ones 
in klibc.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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