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Re: support for calling Linux syscalls directly
- From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor dot com>
- To: Eric Wong <normalperson at yhbt dot net>
- Cc: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>, Michael Kerrisk <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, keescook at chromium dot org
- Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:24:52 -0800
- Subject: Re: support for calling Linux syscalls directly
- References: <201301242314.47793.vapier@gentoo.org> <5109A662.7050101@zytor.com> <20130131073057.GQ20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <Pine.LNX.4.64.1301312309490.13481@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <510AFCF3.6080109@zytor.com> <20130131233654.GR20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <CALxWeYqKWT=ww+EY4VWgfYaW62_=VGuHZqcGzbxykUnnhf1aAA@mail.gmail.com> <20130204143147.GD20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20130206224816.GA31238@dcvr.yhbt.net>
On 02/06/2013 02:48 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
> Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 04:35:40AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>>> io_cancel(2)
>>> io_destroy(2)
>>> io_getevents(2)
>>> io_setup(2)
>>> io_submit(2)
>>
>> There may be some existing lib for these, although if there is I
>> question the reasoning behind that...
>
> I don't know the reasoning, but they're in libaio.
> Still available in Debian: http://packages.qa.debian.org/libaio
> but the kernel page is empty: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/aio/
>
It probably means the owner of the files haven't verified them and
re-uploaded after the 2011 security breach.
-hpa