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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 22:07:37 +0100 From: Justin Cormack <justin@...cialbusservice.com> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: capset() capget() syscalls On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:40:25PM +0100, Justin Cormack wrote: >> Here is an updated version of that list. >> >> >> Syscalls not in Musl >> >> missing and should definitely be in: >> ppoll >> preadv >> pwritev >> setdomainname >> mincore > > Added all of these; hopefully they work. > >> syncfs >> clock_adjtime >> remap_file_pages >> kexec_load > > Pending but easy. > > BTW, some cleanup in the tree organization is still needed. I noticed > src/linux has things like wait3/wait4 as well as the newly added dup3. > Some of these are historical practice or improved analogues of > standard functions, and probably belong alongside the standard > functionality they go with. I'd eventually like src/linux to be JUST > "linux features" like epoll, timerfd, etc. - all the stuff that's > completely new features/functionality invented as part of Linux. Makes sense. >> some issues, may wait until decide how to resolve >> recvmmsg >> sendmmsg > > Indeed. We need to open a dialogue with the kernel folks about this... > >> useful but perhaps lower priority >> futex >> mqgetsetattr >> lookup_dcookie >> modify_ldt >> name_to_handle_at >> nfsservctl >> open_by_handle_at >> perf_event_open >> getcpu >> personality >> quotactl >> sched_setaffinity, sched_getaffinity (note glibc uses different >> interface to syscalls) > > How did you assign priority? This set looks a lot more _useful_ than > the first set, whereas the first set almost surely appears more widely > in legacy software without an option to omit its use... Probably no real rationale. The second set are probably more useful to fewer programs. Merge the lists if you like. >> may implement if someone has a real use >> io_cancel, io_destroy, io_getevents, io_setup, io_submit (ie native >> Linux aio not posix aio) >> >> obsolete or unimplemented in Linux >> [...] >> fanotify_init >> fanotify_mark > > These are obsolete already? I thought fanotify was new... Sorry, my mistake I was misremembering whatever there was before inotify. These should be in (also need a bunch of structs etc for the netlink part of the API I think). >> [...] >> get_robust_list > > This is not obsolete; it's just for implementation-internal use only. Ah ok. Justin
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