Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 11/14/18 1:47 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> 
>> A good demonstration of a new commitment to pragmatism would be
>> merging the trivial wrappers for gettid(2).
> 
> I support the addition of gettid (for use with those syscalls that take 
> tids, and with appropriate documentation explaining the properties of 
> tids) - and, generally, wrappers for all non-obsolescent 
> architecture-independent Linux kernel syscalls, including ones that are 
> very Linux-specific, except maybe for a few interfaces fundamentally 
> inconsistent with glibc managing TLS etc. - they are, at least, no worse 
> as a source of APIs than all the old BSD / SVID interfaces we have from 
> when those were used as sources of APIs.
 
I agree. Documentation is important.

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Cheers,
Carlos.