[klibc] Unsupported system calls

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Oct 16 01:17:53 PDT 2013


On 10/16/2013 01:11 AM, Anil Singhar wrote:
> Also there are lines as follows:
> <ppc64> int stat::stat(const char *, struct stat *);
> 
> Should they be changed likewise too..? I mean to <?>

No.  Those are there because ppc64 have a particular piece of
braindamage: it exports a stat64 system call, which is used in
preference to stat because of the normal rule:

<!ppc64> int stat64,stat::stat(const char *, struct stat *);

... except the stat64 system call doesn't actually work.

	-hpa




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