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

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Apr 21 12:37:00 GMT 2017


On 04/21/2017 02:26 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Apr 21 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Do you (and other distributions) build applications against these headers
>> as well, or are those only used for building glibc itself?
> 
> These are the kernel UAPI headers, so of course they are used by
> everything.

Do you rebase the UAPI headers to the latest kernel release even after a 
release of the distribution, as part of regular maintenance?

If not, how do you get SYS_ macros for the system calls you backport 
into your stable kernel?

Thanks,
Florian



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