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

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Date:   Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:43:26 +0000
From:   Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>
To:     Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
CC:     "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        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@...rceware.org" <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>
Subject: Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?

On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Florian Weimer wrote:

> 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.

Well, I know of two main people who were objecting to the notion of adding 
bindings for all non-obsolescent syscalls, Linux-specific if not suitable 
for adding to the OS-independent GNU API, and neither seems to have posted 
in the past year.

> 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.

We don't have such a process.  (I've suggested, e.g. in conversation with 
Carlos at the Cauldron, that we should have something involving a 
supermajority vote of the GNU maintainers for glibc in cases where we're 
unable to reach a consensus in the community as a whole.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@...esourcery.com