Messages in this thread | | | From | Florian Weimer <> | Subject | Re: Official Linux system wrapper library? | Date | Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:02:04 +0100 |
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* Michael Kerrisk:
> I'm not sure I'd view the glibc position quite so harshly (although > it is disappointing to me that bug 6399 remains open). I think they > are simply short of people to work on this task. There was a lengthy > period where no syscall wrappers were being added (pretty much from > 2.16 to 2.24, as far as I can tell), but that has changed.
People may have disappeared from glibc development who have objected to gettid. I thought this was the case with strlcpy/strlcat, but it was not.
At present, it takes one semi-active glibc contributor to block addition of a system call. The process to override a sustained objection has never been used successfully, and it is a lot of work to get it even started.
Thanks, Florian
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