Re: [PATCH 0/2] Normalize notes about missing glibc wrappers

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Hi Alex,

On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 at 21:45, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
<alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 12/29/20 9:19 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > Hi Alex, hi Ganimedes!
> >
> > On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 at 15:39, Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Michael,
> >>
> >> Here are 2 patches my brother and I prepared together.
> >
> > Thanks. I'm really happy to have patches like this that bring
> > consistent language where exactly the same thing is being talked
> > about. I will send one or two comments on the patches.
> >
> >> There are still some pages that we couldn't find with grep,
> >
> > Does something like this help find others:
> >
> > $ cd man2
> > $ grep -l syscall $(git grep -l wrapper)
>
> Hey M,
>
> It may still not find everything, and I'll probably have to read through
> a lot of text, so what I was doing is I'm comparing all the prototypes
> against the glibc sources to fix them (I have a few of those patches
> that I'm about to send (including the off64_t one).), and that way I'll
> also find quickly which ones are missing in glibc.

Okay. From an off-list mail I recently received, I note also that
seccomp(2) is missing a statement that the use of syscall() is
required.

Thanks,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
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