[PATCH 2/2] Deprecate ustat syscall interface

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Sun Apr 29 21:08:00 GMT 2018


On 04/25/2018 07:59 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> This patch deprecates ustat interface by removing ustat.h related headers,
> adding a compatibility symbol, and avoiding new ports to build and provide
> the symbol.

Perhaps mirror what we said before, e.g. this?

> * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
>   query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
>   the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed.  These functions and header
>   were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
>   used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
>   Linux kernel.

Thanks,
Florian



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