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Date:   Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:47:57 +0000
From:   Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
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Subject: Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Daniel Colascione wrote:

> A good demonstration of a new commitment to pragmatism would be
> merging the trivial wrappers for gettid(2).

I support the addition of gettid (for use with those syscalls that take 
tids, and with appropriate documentation explaining the properties of 
tids) - and, generally, wrappers for all non-obsolescent 
architecture-independent Linux kernel syscalls, including ones that are 
very Linux-specific, except maybe for a few interfaces fundamentally 
inconsistent with glibc managing TLS etc. - they are, at least, no worse 
as a source of APIs than all the old BSD / SVID interfaces we have from 
when those were used as sources of APIs.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com