On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > This is notes from the discussion we had at Linux Plumbers this week > regarding providing a formal description of system calls (user API). > > The idea come up in the context of syzkaller, syscall fuzzer, which > has descriptions for 1000+ syscalls mostly concentrating on types of > arguments and return values. However, problems are that a small group > of people can't write descriptions for all syscalls; can't keep them > up-to-date and doesn't have necessary domain expertise to do correct > descriptions in some cases. > > We identified a surprisingly large number of potential users for such > descriptions: Let me add one more: consolidation of all the incompatible arch syscall tables. A sufficiently descriptive format should be parseable at build time to generate the syscall tables. -- 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
