Stubbing out unavailable syscalls?

Joakim Tjernlund Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se
Tue May 20 20:25:23 UTC 2008


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernhard Fischer [mailto:rep.dot.nop at gmail.com]
> Sent: den 20 maj 2008 22:20
> To: Joakim Tjernlund
> Cc: uclibc at uclibc.org
> Subject: Re: Stubbing out unavailable syscalls?
> 
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 09:07:26PM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 
> >Still think ease of cross compiling is more important than stubs.
> 
> I don't see how this is in any way related to cross compilation since
> sysnum.h is created just fine either way. Please elaborate?

configure often tests for presence of a function by compiling
a test program which will fail when that function is undefined.

> 
> >Are there any apps that is broken due to missing stubs?
> 
> Anything that checks if a syscall "works" is potentially affected.

Yes obviously, I wanted a list of such apps(if there are any)

> 
> >I can live with stubs behind a config option, default off.





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