On 04/17/16 18:09, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>> There aren't a *lot* of such system calls, but even in that thread the
>> "oh, only two applications need this, let them use syscall(3)" seems to
>> remain.
>
> And only 2 applications will continue to use it because no one wants to
> write syscall() wrappers for their individual applications, so it's a
> vicious cycle :(
>
> I really like the 'libinux' idea, did anyone every hack up a first-pass
> at this? And I'm guessing we have more syscalls now that would need to
> be added (like getrandom(), but that shouldn't be too difficult.
>
I haven't hacked anything up yet, but I think it would be easy to simply
take the klibc machinery, remove the stuff that isn't needed, and adjust
the handling of errno(3). I think it is time I admit that it needs to
be put on my TODO list.
-hpa
