After reviewing
http://lsb.sourceforge.net/status.php3?cmd=unknown-ints
here's a list of some symbols for which I think the disposition is
pretty obvious....
Comments?
- Ted
Proposal to exclude:
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ftime BSD 4.2 call obsoleted by gettimeofday
gtty minix system call, unimplemented in linux
stty minix system call, unimplemented in linux
profil old syscall used for profiling, now emulated in glibc. (not in
use?)
ptrace for debugging/development only
init_module system call used by insmod
bdflush system call used to tune bdflush
mount system call should only be used by system programs
umount system call should only be used by system programs
umount2 system call should only be used by system programs
swapoff system call should only be used by system programs
swapon system call should only be used by system programs
delete_module system call should only be used by system programs
Questionable:
mknod obvious, do we think applications call this directly?
POSIX.1 ducked defining this. Should we?
Malloc symbols
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With the exception of the first three (which we should probably
include), we should probably just remove the rest.
mallinfo malloc interface, defined in SVID/XPG; do we care?
mallopt malloc interface, defined in SVID/XPG; do we care?
posix_memalign defined in POSIX 1003.1d (not in unknown list); do we care?
Malloc extensions, should probably remove
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memalign
valloc
malloc_get_state
malloc_set_state
malloc_stats
malloc_trim
malloc_usable_size
mallwatch
mcheck
mprobe
mcheck_check_all
mcheck_pedantic
mtrace
muntrace
Symbols we should move to included
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Defined in POSIX.1
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getwd
getcwd
Defined in POSIX.2
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getopt
