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* memfd_create()
@ 2016-08-29  9:10 Jorge Almeida
  2016-08-29 12:18 ` memfd_create() Szabolcs Nagy
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From: Jorge Almeida @ 2016-08-29  9:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Any plans to support it?

Thanks

Jorge Almeida


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* Re: memfd_create()
  2016-08-29  9:10 memfd_create() Jorge Almeida
@ 2016-08-29 12:18 ` Szabolcs Nagy
  2016-08-29 14:21   ` memfd_create() Jorge Almeida
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Szabolcs Nagy @ 2016-08-29 12:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: musl

* Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> [2016-08-29 02:10:05 -0700]:
> Any plans to support it?

you have to propose an api that glibc accepts otherwise
the api will be unusable by linux userspace code.

there are a number of threads on the topic
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-05/threads.html#00351
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-11/threads.html#00373
...


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* Re: memfd_create()
  2016-08-29 12:18 ` memfd_create() Szabolcs Nagy
@ 2016-08-29 14:21   ` Jorge Almeida
  2016-08-30 20:18     ` memfd_create() Rich Felker
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jorge Almeida @ 2016-08-29 14:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: musl

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net> wrote:
> * Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> [2016-08-29 02:10:05 -0700]:
>> Any plans to support it?
>
> you have to propose an api that glibc accepts otherwise
> the api will be unusable by linux userspace code.
>
Well, that's it, then.

Thanks

Jorge


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* Re: memfd_create()
  2016-08-29 14:21   ` memfd_create() Jorge Almeida
@ 2016-08-30 20:18     ` Rich Felker
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rich Felker @ 2016-08-30 20:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: musl

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 07:21:32AM -0700, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net> wrote:
> > * Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> [2016-08-29 02:10:05 -0700]:
> >> Any plans to support it?
> >
> > you have to propose an api that glibc accepts otherwise
> > the api will be unusable by linux userspace code.
> >
> Well, that's it, then.
> 
> Thanks

Yes. Note that, so far, applications are just using syscall() to get
these functions. I don't think it's reasonable to ask apps to do that,
but it works until the library API gets established.

Rich


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