Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:44:58 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Making a universal list of syscalls? |
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On 03/06/2014 03:40 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:37 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: >> On 03/05/2014 03:08 AM, David Howells wrote: >>> It would be really nice if we could do this in such a manner that we could >>> build strace from it. >> >> strace, seccomp, klibc, ... we all need more or less the same stuff. > > strace also needs to know what the pointed-to type is for pointer > arguments, whether pointers are input, output, or both, and what kind > of flags / constants fit in which integer slot. >
Yes. That kind of information also needs to be annotated.
It might take a while to get there, but it should be part of the design.
-hpa
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