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Re: Addition of ppoll(2), a wrapper around pollts(2)



On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 10:22:12AM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> This is a non-standard extension, but everybody mainstream (except
> macosx that lacks it?) settled on the name ppoll.

... which is probably the worst name anyone could come up with.

Can you explain what alias issues you have? The weak symbol should resolve
against the syscall stub, only problem would be syscall(2), but maybe we
could add

#define SYS_pollts SYS_ppoll

somewhere?

Martin


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