On 04/13/16 19:13, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > One other reason to suggest using a /proc file is that you're not at > the mercy of the glibc folks to wire up a new system call. (Glibc has > been refusing to wire up getrandom(2), for example. Grrrr.....) > This brings right back up the libinux idea. There are continued concerns about type compatibility, but saying "oh, use syscall(3) instead" has worse properties than a Linux-kernel-team maintained libinux. Last I heard the glibc team had (reluctantly?) agreed to do something to deal with linux-specific system calls, but last I heard nothing had happened. The last discussion I see on the glibc mailing list dates back to November, and that thread seems to have died from bikeshedding, again. There aren't a *lot* of such system calls, but even in that thread the "oh, only two applications need this, let them use syscall(3)" seems to remain. -hpa -- 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
