From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:62680 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161025AbWARV6T (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:58:19 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:58:15 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20060118.135815.86692020.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: new syscalls From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <43CEB7A6.1030207@redhat.com> References: <20060118133629.1cda96fd.akpm@osdl.org> <43CEB7A6.1030207@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: drepper@redhat.com Cc: akpm@osdl.org, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, janak@us.ibm.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, dhowells@redhat.com, davidel@xmailserver.org, christoph@lameter.com List-ID: From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:48:22 -0800 > glibc This puts an unnecessary burdon upon kernel platform maintainers. They should not be required to go through the work and time of getting together a sane enough build environment to build the current glibc sources. What we want is a self contained directory of small tests that exercise the syscalls directly and do not have any dependency on any large source base or installed libraries. If I remember correctly, the folks who did EPOLL did exactly this and the syscall additions were trivial to test as a result.