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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Wiring up direct socket calls on x86_32 Linux?
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 23:29:04 +0200
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	(Andy Lutomirski's message of "Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:14:38 -0700")
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Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> writes:

> Glibc people: If Linux wired up the syscalls, would glibc use them?

Not automatically.  It needs to be compatible with the configured
minimum kernel version, so runtime probing would needed to be
implemented.

Andreas.

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