Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?

Carlos O'Donell
2018-12-10T17:39:18Z

On 12/10/18 11:27 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 20:38:56 -0800
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>> On 11/12/18 8:08 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>> On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 18:36:30 -0800
>>> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We should have a checklist. That's a great idea. Now to find someone
>>>> to write it... :)
>>>
>>> Do we think the LPC session might have the right people to create such a
>>> thing? If so, I can try to put together a coherent presentation of the
>>> result.
>>
>> Hi,
>> Did anything ever happen with this syscall checklist suggestion?
>
> No, we really didn't have the right people around to do that,
> unfortunately.

We already have Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst.

The documentation there is quite thorough.

It lists things that people commonly forget e.g. email linux-api@vger.kernel.org.

Would it be acceptable to attempt to collate per-libc information
into the adding-syscalls.rst under a new section called:

"Integration with libc"

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Cheers,
Carlos.