Am 01.04.2016 um 01:36 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > Please be more careful in your description... I'm very sorry. Will do a v2 soon. ;-) > On 03/31/16 15:33, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> Recent happenings in the node.js community showed how fragile software is when >> it comes to dependencies of fundamental algorithms like leftpad[1]. >> A node.js package which provided ledpad vanished and broke a lot of software. > > leftpad > >> This raised our attention and we came to the conclusion that it is the kernel's >> job to provide such functionality such that node.js based applications can in future >> rely in Linux's "don't break userspace" rule. >> We hope that glibc and Andoid's bionic will soon offer wrapper functions for this > > Android's > >> new leftpad system call. >> We put leftpad into the kernel not only because of Linux's stable ABI, >> also for performance reasons. >> As everyone knows, within the kernel everything is faster and better. >> Leftpad has millions of users, so it has to be as fast as possible. >> This new system call will also help making services like left-pad.io[2] >> faster and more reliable. If the leftpad() system call gets adopted by a wider user base >> it might also make sense to add a generic npm() system call which acts like ioctl() >> where kernel modules can register new functions that are often used by node.js. >> Such functions might be, is_array(), is_int(), etc. > > Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
