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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.

So I gathered:-)

-D


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