[RFC PATCH 00/38] Support for Linux asm-generic/unistd.h

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Wed Sep 14 19:05:12 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 09:58:01AM +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> Most if not all of these seem to go into the wrong direction, size-wise.
> Bloat-o-meter output, please?

That's the whole point in the new asm-generic reduced syscalls: to
save a tiny bit of bloat in kernelspace by moving the wrapper bloat to
every single userspace program. (Not to mention the source bloat of
all the #ifdefs...) If you don't like it, complain to Linus...

Rich


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