On 10/01/12 10:26, Tony Luck wrote: > I've been using the warnings from scripts/checksyscalls.sh to let me know > when some new system calls are added, so I can add them to ia64. But > it was recently brought to my attention that I didn't have accept4(). I missed > it because I didn't see a warning, which was because this script just compares > against the 32-bit x86 list. > > A casual grep shows that: > alpha, arm, microblaze, mips, parisc, powerpc, sh and sparc > managed to add accept4 without getting the "warning syscall > .... not implemented" A search of the git log would reveal that on Alpha we only very recently added accept4 because we had also missed it! We were badly bit by the latest udev needing accept4. The question that I think would be more pertinent is: How do we know that we have implemented all relevant syscalls when the checksyscalls.sh script is not a sufficient check? Cheers Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
