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Re: support for calling Linux syscalls directly

On 02/04/2013 09:52 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:01:27 -0500
> 
>> I'm largely against libinux. There does not seem to be any compelling
>> reason for making a new library to hold 500 bytes of syscall wrapper
>> code, and I agree the distinction of what goes there versus libc seems
>> arbitrary and confusing.
> 
> This is my position as well, we should just put all the syscall stubs
> in libc.
> 

After seeing the list, I do agree that the case for libinux seems pretty
weak.  I don't have a strong opinion on glibc vs libinux, I just want to
get rid of syscall(3).

	-hpa
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