api: add helpers for syscalls like {get,set}xattrat?
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- backend, operating-systems
Research direction
Start by reading the existing libpathrs APIs used to implement wrappers for syscalls such as setxattrat. The issue proposes a backward compatible syscall library but leaves unresolved whether it belongs in libpathrs or a separate library; clarify that design and scope before estimating implementation. Done would mean an agreed library boundary and wrappers for the intended syscalls.
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Description
For syscalls such as setxattrat, it is in principle possible to use the existing libpathrs APIs to implement wrappers that work on old kernels, but this is really unergonomic and too annoying for most projects.
We should probably provide a library of backward-compatbile syscalls that use libpathrs internally. Whether this should be part of libpathrs or another library that links to libpathrs is a different question... :/
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 146
- Forks
- 12
- Avg merge
- 6d 10h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 2
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