syscall stubs (Was: Re: RFA: Add Epiphany newlib & libgloss port)

[Joern Rennecke]

Quoting Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>:


> stat always succeeds.  Even with a very rudimentary file system, shouldn't
>   stat be able to fail with ENOENT, EFAULT, ENAMETOOLONG, ENOTDIR, etc?
>
> fstat always succeeds.  What about EBADF, EFAULT, etc.?

> link.c always fails with EMLINK;  wouldn't ENOSYS be better?
> wait.c: likewise always with ECHILD;  wouldn't ENOSYS be better?
>   Tools that detect lack of support recognize ENOSYS as indicating that.

These minimal stubs agree with what the newlib documentation
says at http://sourceware.org/newlib/ under 14.1 .

Is that documentation wrong?