[PATCH] <bits/syscall.h>: Use an arch-independent system call list on Linux

[Andreas Schwab]

On Apr 05 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> Downstream, we have the problem that we need to deliver our glibc packages
> before the kernel team finishes backporting system calls.  This means that
> the final glibc build before a release does not contain all the SYS_*
> macros supported by the kernel headers.

Why can't you just patch the kernel headers package?  With the uapi
separation the kernel headers are pretty much independent of the kernel.

Andreas.

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