> I suspect that encouraging backup systems to shell out to /sbin/mount > might not be the better choice....
Agreed. > valloc is used in a _lot_ of BSD originated codebase and some SYS5. Its > just sort of useful. > > Are there really that many programs that use this feature? Unless > you're doing some kind of direct I/O, you generally don't care about > major alignment issues. The only thing I can think of that would care I meet it regularly in apps. Its used for example to allocate a block of address space to mmap over. Lots of other page aligned goodies lurk > might be enough, but if that's the case, we'll need to check what other > requirements an X server might need --- like iopl() and ioperm(), for > example.) The Linux 'unusual' syscall requirements are in a couple of places. Im not sure we want to define the Xserver needed stuff. It gets into agpgart, mice, physical mmap, pci bus inquries, /proc/bus/pci ... > Yup, we need someone to write up a spec which details how our getopt > differs from POSIX.2's getopt, and we need someone to write up a > getopt_long and friends spec. Thats covered in the glibc info doc and I think pastable
