Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add futimesat syscall

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:13:40PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:42:34PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:28:31PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:08:21PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> > > > I don't think that it's great idea. If libc/kernel headers doesn't 
> > > > provide
> > > > the syscall we shouldn't implement them. The exception is syscalls 
> > > > without
> > > > libc's wrapper. Like gettid(2).
> > > 
> > > Well, defining syscalls appears to be a common practice in qemu for the
> > > *at family of syscalls (openat, linkat, ...), so it doesn't seem that
> > > far off for futimesat().
> > 
> > *at syscalls ware implemented in linux 2.6.16. glibc's wrappers to this
> > syscalls were implemented in glibc 2.4. Both of them relesed more than two
> > and half years ago.
> > 
> > I think we can drop this crap now.
> 
> Current Debian stable uses glibc 2.3.6.

Hm... Ok, I'll fix my patches.

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Regards,  Kirill A. Shutemov
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