Re: plumbers session on syscall wrapping and kernel header libc circular depdence?

[Florian Weimer]

* Nick Desaulniers:

> Hi Florian, Arnd, and Masahiro,
> Jose and I are currently in the planning process to put together a
> Kernel+Toolchain microconference track at Linux Plumbers Conference
> this year (Sept 12-14) in Dublin, Ireland.

I'm not sure if I will be able to travel by that time.

> Would you all be interested in a session (if you're planning on
> attending) discussing syscall wrapping for libc's and UAPI circular
> dependency on the libc?
>
> Masahiro and I were recently discussing the feasibility of building
> the kernel UAPI header tests with -nostdinc, but there are some
> interesting complications perhaps worth sharing with others?

To be honest, that doesn't seem to be a good use of a session slot.
Surely we can figure out a way to solve this issue offline (and if it's
a problem worth solving)?

(I expect that using -nostdinc makes it more difficult to support
compilers which are not GCC-compatible.)

Thanks,
Florian