On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Paul Jackson wrote: > > > Forcing coders to specify the same detail in multiple places, when > > > there is no way to validate their consistency, doesn't force them > > > to think or do it right. It increases the error rate due to > > > > There are always wrappers for system calls. The flags will be set in > > these. > > We were discussing libnuma here, not glibc. The system call wrappers > are in glibc. System call wrappers should not be setting optional > flags. They should just make the system call -- do whatever magic it > takes to get the provided arguments into the right registers or other > conventionally determined places, and invoke the necessary machine > instruction to trap into the kernel.
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