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Message-ID: <87wr47lv64.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 23:26:11 +0200
From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: gcc segfault at src/mman/mlockall.c

Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> writes:

> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:51:23PM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote:
>> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 08:43:33PM +0200, Jens Staal wrote:
>> > > obase-musl still lacks a lot due to many legacy syscalls musl probably
>> > > won't implement.
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@...il.com>  http://chneukirchen.org
>> > 
>> > Could libbsd help with those?
>> 
>> Is it really worth adding on more and more cruft just to get a base
>> system working?  In my opinion it would be better to flesh out sbase[1]
>> or something like it.  Requiring a compatibility shim for your core
>> utilities sounds like a bad day waiting to happen.
>
> If there are really _syscalls_ not implemented, I'd be interested in
> knowing what they are.

Sorry, not syscalls; I mean BSD libc functions such as fts(3).

-- 
Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@...il.com>  http://chneukirchen.org

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