linux-kernel - Re: Making a universal list of syscalls?

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Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:36:50 +0100
From:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	libseccomp-discuss@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Michael Kerrisk-manpages <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Making a universal list of syscalls?

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:37 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>> On 03/05/2014 03:08 AM, David Howells wrote:
>>> It would be really nice if we could do this in such a manner that we could
>>> build strace from it.
>>
>> strace, seccomp, klibc, ... we all need more or less the same stuff.
>
> strace also needs to know what the pointed-to type is for pointer
> arguments, whether pointers are input, output, or both, and what kind
> of flags / constants fit in which integer slot.
>
> --Andy


Late to the party, but... Obviously man-pages would be interested in
any results here, so if you CCed me on any future work/results that
would be great.

Thanks,

Michael
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