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



On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 12:05:44PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 03:09:09PM +0530, Apurva Nandan wrote:
> > I meant that I can't create a __weak_alias ppoll(2) to pollts(2) in libc as
> > pollts(2) has its definition in sys/sys. But yes the resulting weak alias
> > symbol works from everywhere.
> 
> The syscall stabs are generated code, but we have full controll over the
> generator, so adding a variant with an aliased name should be simple.

I don't see any reason to micro-optimize a tail call here.

Joerg


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