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From: Alexander Larsson <alexander.larsson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Using direct socket syscalls on x86_32 where available?
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>
> One way to implement it would be to favor the new syscalls but to set some
> variable the first time one of them returns ENOSYS.  Once that happens,
> either all of them could fall back to socketcall or just that one syscall
> could.
>
> Or you could just avoid implementing it and see if anyone complains. It's
> plausible that xdg-app might start requiring the new syscalls (although it
> would presumably not kill you if tried to use socketcall).
>
> Alex, if glibc started using the new syscalls, would you want to require
> them inside xdg-app?

Probably not. At this point 32bit x86 just is not interesting enough
for such extra pain. We'll just not filter on address types on 32bit.