[PATCH 1/5] Linux: Add tables with system call numbers

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@gotplt.org
Tue Dec 31 16:11:00 GMT 2019


On 31/12/19 9:34 pm, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I'll see what I can do about this.  It will require quite a bit
> re-testing.
> 

Thanks, the freeze (I'm evaluating and writing that email as I write
this) will be slushy at least till the end of this week.  At worst (i.e.
if you can't make it by the end of the week), we can conclude the review
and you can commit it right after release.

> No, there are system call tables which are shared across tuples,
> e.g. little-endian and big-endian variants.  These also get updated
> multiple times.
> 
> The only alternative would be to lock a different file, perhaps
> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile.  I don't know the impact yet on the
> execution time.

OK, we can hold off on that, the current version of this bit is fine.

Siddhesh



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