From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43)
	id 1KgHSI-00050E-1V
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:13:50 -0400
Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43)
	id 1KgHSF-0004zv-7E
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:13:49 -0400
Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36917 helo=monty-python.gnu.org)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KgHSE-0004zo-UP
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:13:46 -0400
Received: from relay01.mx.bawue.net ([193.7.176.67]:36692)
	by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps
	(TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60)
	(envelope-from <ths@networkno.de>) id 1KgHSE-0008B4-5B
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:13:46 -0400
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:13:40 +0200
From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add futimesat syscall
Message-ID: <20080918111340.GB19245@networkno.de>
References: <20080917194533.GB21187@kos.to>
	<fb249edb0809171654q374a20e2kd16453cc6faed6e7@mail.gmail.com>
	<20080918063007.GA26841@kos.to>
	<761ea48b0809180023t37d300ceq790fe33c5ab7602a@mail.gmail.com>
	<20080918090821.GA17893@kos.to>
	<20080918092826.GA5059@localhost.localdomain>
	<20080918094234.GA23737@kos.to>
	<20080918101629.GB9799@localhost.localdomain>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20080918101629.GB9799@localhost.localdomain>
Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>,
	<mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/qemu-devel>
List-Post: <mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>,
	<mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=subscribe>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:42:34PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:28:31PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:08:21PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> > > I don't think that it's great idea. If libc/kernel headers doesn't provide
> > > the syscall we shouldn't implement them. The exception is syscalls without
> > > libc's wrapper. Like gettid(2).
> > 
> > Well, defining syscalls appears to be a common practice in qemu for the
> > *at family of syscalls (openat, linkat, ...), so it doesn't seem that
> > far off for futimesat().
> 
> *at syscalls ware implemented in linux 2.6.16. glibc's wrappers to this
> syscalls were implemented in glibc 2.4. Both of them relesed more than two
> and half years ago.
> 
> I think we can drop this crap now.

Current Debian stable uses glibc 2.3.6.


Thiemo