On 11/14/18 1:47 PM, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Daniel Colascione wrote: > >> A good demonstration of a new commitment to pragmatism would be >> merging the trivial wrappers for gettid(2). > > I support the addition of gettid (for use with those syscalls that take > tids, and with appropriate documentation explaining the properties of > tids) - and, generally, wrappers for all non-obsolescent > architecture-independent Linux kernel syscalls, including ones that are > very Linux-specific, except maybe for a few interfaces fundamentally > inconsistent with glibc managing TLS etc. - they are, at least, no worse > as a source of APIs than all the old BSD / SVID interfaces we have from > when those were used as sources of APIs. I agree. Documentation is important. -- Cheers, Carlos.
