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reply Nathan S. <no.public.email example.com> writes:
About package
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Linux system call numbers for different architectures. That's all.

https://code.dlang.org/packages/mir-linux-kernel


Motivating Example
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Linux 3.17 added the getrandom syscall. Using it instead of 
/dev/[u]?random was a win. But we didn't think about all of the 
architectures that people might try building our library on, and 
soon we got a report from a user that our latest and greatest 
release was failing to compile on Raspberry Pi.


Example
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import mir.linux._asm.unistd: NR_getrandom;

/*
  *   If the GRND_NONBLOCK flag is set, then
  *   getrandom() does not block in these cases, but instead
  *   immediately returns -1 with errno set to EAGAIN.
  */
private ptrdiff_t genRandomImplSysNonBlocking(scope void* ptr, 
size_t len)  nogc nothrow  system
{
     return syscall(NR_getrandom, cast(size_t) ptr, len, 
GRND_NONBLOCK);
}
Nov 10 2017
parent reply Adrian Matoga <dlang.spam matoga.info> writes:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 18:27:36 UTC, Nathan S. wrote:
 About package
 --------------
 Linux system call numbers for different architectures. That's 
 all.

 [...]
Was there anything wrong with https://code.dlang.org/packages/syscall-d ?
Nov 11 2017
parent reply Nicholas Wilson <iamthewilsonator hotmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 08:43:32 UTC, Adrian Matoga 
wrote:
 On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 18:27:36 UTC, Nathan S. wrote:
 About package
 --------------
 Linux system call numbers for different architectures. That's 
 all.

 [...]
Was there anything wrong with https://code.dlang.org/packages/syscall-d ?
From it's readme: Supported Platforms: Linux-x86_64 Linux-x86 OSX-x86_64 FreeBSD-x86_64 i.e. x86[_64] only. mir-linux-kernel has all the supported archs.
Nov 11 2017
parent reply Adrian Matoga <dlang.spam matoga.info> writes:
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 08:54:54 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
wrote:
 On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 08:43:32 UTC, Adrian Matoga 
 wrote:
 On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 18:27:36 UTC, Nathan S. wrote:
 About package
 --------------
 Linux system call numbers for different architectures. That's 
 all.

 [...]
Was there anything wrong with https://code.dlang.org/packages/syscall-d ?
From it's readme: Supported Platforms: Linux-x86_64 Linux-x86 OSX-x86_64 FreeBSD-x86_64 i.e. x86[_64] only. mir-linux-kernel has all the supported archs.
Still, I would first try to submit a PR to syscall-d, and only go for a new package if syscall-d owners refuse to extend the list of platforms. Now we have two different packages that are supposed to do the same but have different arbitrary limitations.
Nov 14 2017
parent Ilya Yaroshenko <ilyayaroshenko gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 13:08:14 UTC, Adrian Matoga wrote:
 On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 08:54:54 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
 wrote:
 On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 08:43:32 UTC, Adrian Matoga 
 wrote:
 On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 18:27:36 UTC, Nathan S. wrote:
 About package
 --------------
 Linux system call numbers for different architectures. 
 That's all.

 [...]
Was there anything wrong with https://code.dlang.org/packages/syscall-d ?
From it's readme: Supported Platforms: Linux-x86_64 Linux-x86 OSX-x86_64 FreeBSD-x86_64 i.e. x86[_64] only. mir-linux-kernel has all the supported archs.
Still, I would first try to submit a PR to syscall-d, and only go for a new package if syscall-d owners refuse to extend the list of platforms. Now we have two different packages that are supposed to do the same but have different arbitrary limitations.
The goal of this package is linux support, and the code is autogenerated from Linux sources. It may include other linux kernel headers in the future. I don't see any problem here. The syscall-d can import mir-linux-kernel if they want to have the best linux support and provide something for other OS. Best, Ilya
Nov 14 2017