[klibc] proposed faccessat

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Apr 19 22:49:48 PDT 2010


On 04/19/2010 09:29 PM, maximilian attems wrote:
>>>
>>> Implement as wrapper around sys_faccessat().
>>
>> This isn't quite right.  I'd suggest we either tweak dash's build
>> to not detect faccessat on klibc, or implement faccessat properly
>> in klibc by doing what the glibc version does.
> 
> if it is not klibc domain to have it we can merge hunk of my
> patch to rename sys_faccessat() to __faccessat,
> then dash config wouldn't see it in klibc and this fun would be over :)
> 
> as sidenote nor dietlibc nor uclibc seem to have it,
> bad that the kernel implementation seems incomplete.
> 
> not really my call, waiting for hpa to weight in.
> although I'd still like to know what you'd miss Herbert?

The easiest is probably to just pull the system call entirely until
something really needs it.

	-hpa

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