Principles for syscall wrappers, again

[Andreas Schwab]

Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> writes:

> I think this is gratuitous NIH'ing and a disservice to applications.
> Code which wants to use the futex API is already doing so via
> syscall() with the existing API, and is most easily updated to use
> futex().

futex is much like socketcall: a multiplexer between more or less
loosely related functions.  See nptl/DESIGN*.txt for how the API really
should look like.

Andreas.

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