Robert Millan a écrit :
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 12:11:52AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
This is the comment in the FreeBSD kernel, file sys/kern/kern_xxx.c
/*
* This is the FreeBSD-1.1 compatable uname(2) interface. These
* days it is done in libc as a wrapper around a bunch of sysctl's.
* This must maintain the old 1.1 binary ABI.
*/
Then if you look at the code corresponding to the syscall, you will see
that the syscall correspond to a call to the corresponding sysctl, but
truncated:
...
name[0] = CTL_KERN;
name[1] = KERN_OSTYPE;
len = sizeof (uap->name->sysname);
mtx_lock(&Giant);
error = userland_sysctl(td, name, 2, uap->name->sysname, &len,
1, 0, 0, 0);
if (error)
goto done2;
subyte( uap->name->sysname + sizeof(uap->name->sysname) - 1, 0);
...
So, in short the current implementation in our glibc is the correct one.
Weird. How about disabling SYS_uname macro, then?
I don't see why we should disable it here. This syscall does its job
correclty, ie it returns the requested data, but in a format different
from our userland structure (32 bytes field instead of 256 bytes).
There is a lot of unused syscalls in sys/syscalls.h. Maybe we could
decide not to export this file, but I don't think it is a good idea to
remove some syscalls just because they are not suitable for the
corresponding glibc functions.
Aurelien
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