Consensus around kernel syscall wrappers?

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Aug 17 19:37:00 GMT 2015


On 08/13/2015 10:06 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Have we achieved consensus on the kernel syscall wrappers?
> 
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Consensus#WIP:_Kernel_syscalls_wrappers

I think it's worth adding another point, that the sole arbiter of the
Linux API is Linus' kernel tree.  Which means we won't wrap system calls
(or ioctl constants) related to non-mainline extensions.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security



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