Re: Making a universal list of syscalls?

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/06/2014 03:40 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes.  That kind of information also needs to be annotated.

It might take a while to get there, but it should be part of the design.

	-hpa


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