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>
> I haven't heard any complains about existing syscalls wrappers.

At least for me they always interrupt my grepping.

>
> What kind of annotations could solve that?

If you put the annotation in a separate macro and leave the original
prototype alone. Then C parsers could still parse it.

-Andi