Please be more careful in your description...
On 03/31/16 15:33, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Recent happenings in the node.js community showed how fragile software is when
> it comes to dependencies of fundamental algorithms like leftpad[1].
> A node.js package which provided ledpad vanished and broke a lot of software.
leftpad
> This raised our attention and we came to the conclusion that it is the
> kernel's
> job to provide such functionality such that node.js based applications can in
> future
> rely in Linux's "don't break userspace" rule.
> We hope that glibc and Andoid's bionic will soon offer wrapper functions for
> this
Android's
> new leftpad system call.
> We put leftpad into the kernel not only because of Linux's stable ABI,
> also for performance reasons.
> As everyone knows, within the kernel everything is faster and better.
> Leftpad has millions of users, so it has to be as fast as possible.
> This new system call will also help making services like left-pad.io[2]
> faster and more reliable. If the leftpad() system call gets adopted by a
> wider user base
> it might also make sense to add a generic npm() system call which acts like
> ioctl()
> where kernel modules can register new functions that are often used by
> node.js.
> Such functions might be, is_array(), is_int(), etc.
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~Randy
