Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:16:31 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: asm-generic/unistd.h and glibc use of NR_ipc |
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:05:13AM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote: > Another point where I'd appreciate guidance from libc-alpha is the sysctl() > and ustat() APIs. The corresponding system calls are missing from > <asm-generic/unistd.h>, since they are deprecated and their functionality > is better provided by other means (/proc/sys, fstat). So I've simply had > them return -1 with errno == ENOSYS. Is there any reason to think they > merit more substantial work? One could imagine baking in some horrible > mapping of "integer names" into path components for a sysctl() > implementation and reading /proc/sys to provide results, or walking all of > the mount points looking for a matching device number to pass a name to > fstat(), but I'm not sure it's worth the bloat to the library.
fstat does not replace ustat. ustat is a statf-subsystem by dev_t and is not replaced by anything. xfsprogs for example uses it to check if a given dev_t is currently mounted. Please add it to the generic code.
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