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Re: Remove pre-2.4 Linux kernel support
On Tue, 22 May 2012, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I'll take your word for which files are in which categories. Of course,
> the "Consider" comment should be applied somewhat liberally, and the actual
> consideration will decide whether to replace the file with a syscalls.list
> entry or to change the comment to explain why that's not an option.
And in some cases it may be that an existing entry suffices rather than a
new entry being needed (it seems plausible that the powerpc64 pread/pwrite
can use the entries in sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64/syscalls.list,
for example).
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