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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
	 <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Use execveat syscall in fexecve
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vakpymrw.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1709112035390.29946@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (Joseph Myers's message of "Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:38:16 +0000")

* Joseph Myers:

> We have the ENOSYS code there and the subsequent fallback that will 
> eventually need cleaning up *anyway*.  Having the __ASSUME_* macro makes 
> it obvious in future exactly what changes should be made for the cleanup 
> and exactly when it is possible to do that cleanup.  I think having such 
> macros for any case with fallback code that can be cleaned up in future is 
> a good idea for that reason.

Agreed.  As long as there is an expectation that we will eventually
bump the minimum kernel requirement, __ASSUME_* macros are the way to
go.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-11 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-07  9:06 [PATCH] " Andreas Schwab
2017-09-07 11:27 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-11 10:23   ` [PATCH v2] " Andreas Schwab
2017-09-11 20:30     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-11 20:38       ` Joseph Myers
2017-09-11 20:59         ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2017-09-11 22:58           ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-14  8:05       ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-14 13:44         ` Adhemerval Zanella

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