Re: glibc at the Toolchains microconference at LPC 2019

[Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>]

On June 26, 2019 6:50:23 PM GMT+02:00, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:39 PM Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
>wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 06:01:28PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> > glibc system call wrappers are on the agenda:
>> >
>> >
><https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/blog/2019/toolchains-microconference-accepted-into-2019-linux-plumbers-conference/>
>> >
>> > Will anyone from the glibc community attend and can set the right
>> > expectations?
>>
>> What are the right expectations?
>
>Well, _I_ think glibc should provide wrappers for all Linux system
>calls, except those that cannot be used without stomping on internal
>glibc data structures (e.g. set_tid_address, set_robust_list, brk) and
>those that have been completely superseded by newer syscalls.  Other
>people have disagreed with me pretty strenuously, but they haven't
>done any of the work required to make forward progress on their more
>conservative policies.  I am tempted to post a patch early in the 2.31
>cycle that adds wrappers for everything, and then threaten to apply it
>unilaterally unless I hear concrete objections within a week or so.
>
>zw

Strongly agree.