Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:16:05 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] mlock.2: mlock2.2: Add entry to for new mlock2 syscall |
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On Fri 11-09-15 10:57:12, Eric B Munson wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote: [...] > > Also, what about glibc wrapper for mlock2()? Does it have to come before or > > after the manpage and who gets it in? > > V3 now has an updated version, hopefully mlock2 hits the 4.4 merge > window. > > I don't know about the glibc wrapper, are we expected to write one > ourselves? Will they even take it? They haven't been the most open > minded about taking wrappers for system calls that are unique to Linux > in the past.
I do not think we really do care about the glibc wrapper. There are many syscalls which do not have it either (e.g. gettid).
But I guess it would be worth noting this in the man page the same way as gettid does. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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