On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 13:13, David Mosberger wrote:

> I guess I don't really see the harm in having glibc provide a header
> for these system call, but as long as the syscall stubs are there,
> it's probably not a huge issue in practice.

David, you are around long enough to see the dangers.  I don't want to
have any dependencies on the kernel.  Any change in the kernel interface
would force me to make a new release which isn't going to happen.

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