support for calling Linux syscalls directly

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/30/2013 11:30 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> 3. On the issue of difficulty making the syscall() directly -- things
> like argument order, 64-bit argument padding on 32-bit archs, etc. --
> I don't think any of the syscalls we're talking about are affected by
> these issues. Please correct me if I'm wrong. If I'm right, then it's
> not really all that important to provide wrappers at all; the 1 or 2
> applications that use these syscalls can just use syscall()
> themselves.
> 

"Right now we don't have a problem so let's encourage something really
unsafe?"  That seems crazy.

	-hpa