[LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/ustat: Move the syscall to lapi

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Thu Feb 21 15:30:22 CET 2019


Hi!
> > diff --git a/include/lapi/ustat.h b/include/lapi/ustat.h
> > index 12c073582..6365b2e92 100644
> > --- a/include/lapi/ustat.h
> > +++ b/include/lapi/ustat.h
> > @@ -10,12 +10,19 @@
> >  #ifdef HAVE_SYS_USTAT_H
> >  # include <sys/ustat.h>
> 
> Just a thought, but this is potentially a problem if lib C implementes
> ustat in user land, but the system call still exists. Which I think is
> more likely with an obsolete system call.

Good point. So it all depends on what we want to focus on, if we are
after kernel, we should call the syscall directly, if we look at system
functionality we should go after the libc one by default.

I guess that ideally we should test both, not sure how to achiveve that
reasonably easily...

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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