From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:22:59 -0700 Received: from u-217.frankfurt3.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.18.217]:22532 "EHLO u-217.frankfurt3.ipdial.viaginterkom.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:22:19 -0700 Received: (ralf@lappi) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de id ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:21:39 +0200 Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:21:39 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Alan Cox Cc: Andreas Jaeger , Mike Klar , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: errno assignment in _syscall macros and glibc Message-ID: <20000625232138.A3802@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20000625204334.E1572@bacchus.dhis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 08:26:42PM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing 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