Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] Syscall User Dispatch

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Wed Nov 18 2020 - 12:22:14 EST


* Gabriel Krisman Bertazi:

> The main use case is to intercept Windows system calls of an application
> running over Wine. While Wine is using an unmodified glibc to execute
> its own native Linux syscalls, the Windows libraries might be directly
> issuing syscalls that we need to capture. So there is a mix. While this
> mechanism is compatible with existing libc, we might have other
> libraries executing a syscall instruction directly.

Please raise this on libc-alpha, it's an unexpected compatibility
constraint on glibc. Thanks.