Re: Making a universal list of syscalls?

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Thu Mar 06 2014 - 18:41:12 EST


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:37 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/05/2014 03:08 AM, David Howells wrote:
>> It would be really nice if we could do this in such a manner that we could
>> build strace from it.
>
> strace, seccomp, klibc, ... we all need more or less the same stuff.

strace also needs to know what the pointed-to type is for pointer
arguments, whether pointers are input, output, or both, and what kind
of flags / constants fit in which integer slot.

--Andy

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> -hpa
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