Re: [klibc] syconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) versus getpagesize()

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

maximilian attems wrote:
> hello karel,
>
> thanks a lot for the klibc portability merges.
>
> current HEAD klibc failure:
> mkswap.c: In function ‘init_signature_page’:
> mkswap.c:148: error: ‘_SC_PAGESIZE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> although POSIX encourages sysconf() could util-linux use getpagesize() ?

I should motivate this.

sysconf() is a multiplex API which invokes a large number of unrelated 
data items.  To support it in klibc, I would have to pull *all* the 
sysconf items to support any single one, which would lead me with a 
couple of choices:

1. Support a subset of sysconf() entries only, like _SC_PAGESIZE,
   and perhaps a few which can be derived from static code.
2. Support as many sysconf() entries as possible, which would bloat
   static binaries.
3. Implement sysconf() as a hideously ugly must_inline thing trying
   to disambiguate the individual items, at least in the common case
   of passing in a constant.
4. Implement sysconf() taking a function pointer, instead of int.

I'm not ruling this out, however, to the best of my knowledge 
getpagesize() is more portable than sysconf() to anything Linux; I don't 
know about non-Linux systems or if we care.

	-hpa

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