On 15.06.2020 14:16, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2020-06-15 14:12, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >> On 15.06.2020 14:11, Johnny Billquist wrote: >>> >>> We should not clutter the directories that are in the normal users path >>> with things that a normal user would never care about. >> >> I never used 90% of the programs from /usr/bin /usr/sbin /bin /sbin. but >> I definitely would use makesyscall(1). If you have other argument that >> "I don't use it" please speak up. > > I'm not convinced you are particularly representative of "users". > NetBSD is a my daily driver so I'm a user! > But it would be interesting to hear how and when you are planning to use > makesyscalls. > I work with the syscall layer almost continuously in various projects (debuggers, fuzzers, syscall tracers, sanitizers, non-libc language runtimes etc). Reiterating over the same list 10 times just increases the frustration and perception of lost time of repeating the same process in an incompatible way for another program. The tool shall centralize the whole knowledge about passed arguments, structs and export it to users through a flexible code generation. We already distribute to users /usr/include/sys/syscalls.h (and it is used e.g. by GDB to parse the syscalls, as parsing syscalls.master in that case was harder). makesyscalls(1) is intended to be a more specialized and generic version of the same functionality as distributed by this header. With some sort of fanciness, we could generate these lists on the fly in some projects (for e.g. GDB) and we would want the utility to be available in place. If it is restricted to build-only phase of various programs (that definitely shall be free from BSDSRCDIR dependency) it will be good enough. I'm for adding this program in PATH and I would be a user on a regular basis. I basically need it for pretty everything (2 GSoC ongoing projects are about covering the same syscalls in 2 different ways). Asking me for a use-case is odd to me as it is an elementary program that belongs to /usr/bin. > Johnny >
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