Principles for syscall wrappers, again

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:17:49AM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2015, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> > The big practical questions left are where to expose the interfaces,
> > and with what signatures.
> 
> All these questions can be resolved in the discussions of the individual 
> interfaces if and when anyone works on patches to add wrappers for them.  
> I'm simply trying to get an answer for "when should such wrappers be added 
> at all?" other than "only for interfaces already in Linux 3.2 / glibc 
> 2.15", along with "what does a complete patch adding such a wrapper look 
> like?", so there is a common basis for reviewing all such patches.

Indeed. I didn't mean to derail your (very good) question, just to
offer some thoughts to try to get the process started.

Rich