support for calling Linux syscalls directly

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Rich Felker wrote:

> What I'd like to see is an honest reevaluation of the currently
> missing syscall wrappers glibc doesn't provide. If there are some that
> libc should provide, let's get them added. If they're really not meant
> to be used except in a single application (or not at all -- deprecated
> junk) then they can just be left alone.

I agree with that approach - with the requirement that any new syscall 
wrapper added must have a prototype included in some header that glibc 
installs.

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Joseph S. Myers
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