Re: [PATCH v2] mlock.2: mlock2.2: Add entry to for new mlock2 syscall

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On Fri 11-09-15 10:57:12, Eric B Munson wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
[...]
> > Also, what about glibc wrapper for mlock2()? Does it have to come before or
> > after the manpage and who gets it in?
> 
> V3 now has an updated version, hopefully mlock2 hits the 4.4 merge
> window.
> 
> I don't know about the glibc wrapper, are we expected to write one
> ourselves?  Will they even take it?  They haven't been the most open
> minded about taking wrappers for system calls that are unique to Linux
> in the past.

I do not think we really do care about the glibc wrapper. There are many
syscalls which do not have it either (e.g. gettid).

But I guess it would be worth noting this in the man page the same way
as gettid does.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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