linux-kernel - Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?

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Date:   Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:02:04 +0100
From:   Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To:     "Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Cc:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Carlos O'Donell <carlos@...hat.com>,
        "libc-alpha\@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>
Subject: Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?

* Michael Kerrisk:

> I'm not sure I'd view the glibc position quite so harshly (although 
> it is disappointing to me that bug 6399 remains open). I think they
> are simply short of people to work on this task. There was a lengthy
> period where no syscall wrappers were being added (pretty much from
> 2.16 to 2.24, as far as I can tell), but that has changed.

People may have disappeared from glibc development who have objected to
gettid.  I thought this was the case with strlcpy/strlcat, but it was
not.

At present, it takes one semi-active glibc contributor to block addition
of a system call.  The process to override a sustained objection has
never been used successfully, and it is a lot of work to get it even
started.

Thanks,
Florian