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List:       glibc-alpha
Subject:    Re: [PATCH 2/2] Deprecate ustat syscall interface
From:       Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella () linaro ! org>
Date:       2018-04-30 11:06:39
Message-ID: 9edb81fd-29ea-7d24-5151-c316387a4fe9 () linaro ! org
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On 29/04/2018 18:08, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 04/25/2018 07:59 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>> This patch deprecates ustat interface by removing ustat.h related headers,
>> adding a compatibility symbol, and avoiding new ports to build and provide
>> the symbol.
> 
> Perhaps mirror what we said before, e.g. this?
> 
>> * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
>>   query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
>>   the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed.  These functions and header
>>   were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
>>   used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
>>   Linux kernel.

Alright, I will change to:

* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked binaries;
  the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed.  This function 
  has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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