1. 30 5月, 2014 1 次提交
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      support linux kernel apis (new archs) with old syscalls removed · dd5f50da
      Rich Felker 提交于
      such archs are expected to omit definitions of the SYS_* macros for
      syscalls their kernels lack from arch/$ARCH/bits/syscall.h. the
      preprocessor is then able to select the an appropriate implementation
      for affected functions. two basic strategies are used on a
      case-by-case basis:
      
      where the old syscalls correspond to deprecated library-level
      functions, the deprecated functions have been converted to wrappers
      for the modern function, and the modern function has fallback code
      (omitted at the preprocessor level on new archs) to make use of the
      old syscalls if the new syscall fails with ENOSYS. this also improves
      functionality on older kernels and eliminates the incentive to program
      with deprecated library-level functions for the sake of compatibility
      with older kernels.
      
      in other situations where the old syscalls correspond to library-level
      functions which are not deprecated but merely lack some new features,
      such as the *at functions, the old syscalls are still used on archs
      which support them. this may change at some point in the future if or
      when fallback code is added to the new functions to make them usable
      (possibly with reduced functionality) on old kernels.
      dd5f50da
  2. 20 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  3. 14 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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      cleaning up syscalls in preparation for x86_64 port · 2cdfb7ca
      Rich Felker 提交于
      - hide all the legacy xxxxxx32 name cruft in syscall.h so the actual
      source files can be clean and uniform across all archs.
      
      - cleanup llseek/lseek and mmap2/mmap handling for 32/64 bit systems
      
      - alternate implementation for nice if the target lacks nice syscall
      2cdfb7ca
  4. 12 2月, 2011 1 次提交