Re: errno assignment in _syscall macros and glibc

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 08:26:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Andreas - I think the syscall interface should finally officially be
> > declared a private interface between libc and the kernel, that is nobody
> > except these two should use it.  Many of the other attempts to use it
> > have been quite problematic - portabilitywise and worse.
> 
> Don't make it too private. glibc is still worryingly large for some embedded
> applications. Between a libc and the kernel yes, between glibc and the kernel
> no.

Sure; these days glibc is more or less synonym with libc and I was using
it in that sense.

What small, portable libcs do we have available anyway?  Some mipers will
want one.

  Ralf