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

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 9:45 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Nick,
>
> Sorry for the late reply.
>
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 2:48 AM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > ~Nick Desaulniers
>
>
> I am not sure about the travel at the moment.

Bummer.

> I may be able to attend it remotely if the the plumbers is held as a
> hybrid conference.

I think it will be.
https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/3119c35ba1fa7247e87d7acb56e85ea99092d0a4.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

> I am not quite sure how many developers would be interested in this topic,
> but we can continue discussion in the ML as well.

Ok, based on the feedback, we will scrap the idea for the topic. I
will follow up with the UAPI discussions on the list.
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers