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Subject: Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?
To:     Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
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From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Date:   Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:32:42 -0800
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On 12/10/18 9:39 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 12/10/18 11:27 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 20:38:56 -0800
>> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/12/18 8:08 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 18:36:30 -0800
>>>> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> We should have a checklist.  That's a great idea.  Now to find someone
>>>>> to write it... :)  
>>>>
>>>> Do we think the LPC session might have the right people to create such a
>>>> thing?  If so, I can try to put together a coherent presentation of the
>>>> result.  
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Did anything ever happen with this syscall checklist suggestion?
>>
>> No, we really didn't have the right people around to do that,
>> unfortunately.  
> 
> We already have Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst.
> 
> The documentation there is quite thorough.
> 
> It lists things that people commonly forget e.g. email linux-api@vger.kernel.org.
> 
> Would it be acceptable to attempt to collate per-libc information
> into the adding-syscalls.rst under a new section called:
> 
> "Integration with libc"
> 

I think that updates to adding-syscalls.rst would be sufficient,
instead of having a new/separate syscalls-checklist file.

thanks,
-- 
~Randy