syscallent.sh and useless END{} ?

Dmitry V. Levin ldv at altlinux.org
Sat Apr 19 19:14:51 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 07:20:11PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
[...]
> double hrm.  this was svn acting up on me again.  sometimes it fails to detect 
> that a file actually has changes in it.  in this case, syscallent.sh wasnt 
> fully committed.
> 
> now that i look at it again, i wonder what exactly the purpose of the END{} 
> block in the awk is for.  it seems to completely pointless in my eyes.  why 
> generate 100 extra syscalls that are known to be undefined ?

That script seems to be designed to prepare syscallent.h templates for
later edit by hand; looks like somebody need stub entries, I have no idea
why.


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