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

[Andreas Schwab]

On Apr 22 2017, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:

> I was mistaken.  As described, it will work.  But if we only backport
> the the system call additions to the UAPI headers used by the
> applications, this
>
> #ifdef SYS_getrandom
>   return syscall (SYS_getrandom, buf, len, 0);
> #else
>   errno = ENOSYS;
>   return -1;
> #endif
>
> could fail with an error that __NR_getrandom is undefined.

Why?  That's defined by the UAPI headers.

Andreas.

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