On 04/17/16 18:09, Greg KH wrote: >> >> 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. > > And only 2 applications will continue to use it because no one wants to > write syscall() wrappers for their individual applications, so it's a > vicious cycle :( > > I really like the 'libinux' idea, did anyone every hack up a first-pass > at this? And I'm guessing we have more syscalls now that would need to > be added (like getrandom(), but that shouldn't be too difficult. > I haven't hacked anything up yet, but I think it would be easy to simply take the klibc machinery, remove the stuff that isn't needed, and adjust the handling of errno(3). I think it is time I admit that it needs to be put on my TODO list. -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
