Re: unimplemented system calls
At 08:33 -0700 1998-09-14, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>There are a few more syscalls in the newest code which won't report errors
>anymore but won't do anything, which will be in the next snapshot. The problem
>is presumably that glibc is testing for existance but not usefulness of
>syscalls and so it finds lots of which aren't implemented, when in reality it
>would be nice if it ignored them.
glibc makes most of its assumptions based on the kernel headers installed
at the time it is built, and only does runtime testing in some cases.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)
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