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Re: [PATCH] Implement leftpad syscall

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On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:33:32AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> From: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>
> 
> Implement the leftpad() system call such that userspace,
> especially node.js applications, can in the near future directly
> use it and no longer depend on fragile npm packages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
> ---
>  arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl |  1 +
>  include/linux/syscalls.h               |  1 +
>  kernel/sys.c                           | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/sys_ni.c                        |  1 +
>  4 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
> index cac6d17..f287712 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
> @@ -335,6 +335,7 @@
>  326	common	copy_file_range		sys_copy_file_range
>  327	64	preadv2			sys_preadv2
>  328	64	pwritev2		sys_pwritev2
> +329	common	leftpad			sys_leftpad
>  
>  #
>  # x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact
> diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
> index d795472..a0850bb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
> +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
> @@ -898,4 +898,5 @@ asmlinkage long sys_copy_file_range(int fd_in, loff_t __user *off_in,
>  
>  asmlinkage long sys_mlock2(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags);
>  
> +asmlinkage long sys_leftpad(char *str, char pad, char *dst, size_t dst_len);
>  #endif
> diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
> index cf8ba54..e42d972 100644
> --- a/kernel/sys.c
> +++ b/kernel/sys.c
> @@ -2432,3 +2432,38 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysinfo, struct compat_sysinfo __user *, info)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  #endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
> +
> +
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE4(leftpad, char *, src, char, pad, char *, dst, size_t, dst_len)

Have you considered /dev/leftpad instead?

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New syscall: leftpad() Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2016-04-01 00:40 +0200
  [PATCH] Implement leftpad syscall Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2016-04-01 00:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Implement leftpad syscall "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 00:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Implement leftpad syscall Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-04-01 01:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Implement leftpad syscall Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 03:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Implement leftpad syscall kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2016-04-01 05:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Implement leftpad syscall Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 09:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Implement leftpad syscall Scotty Bauer <sbauer@eng.utah.edu> - 2016-04-01 09:20 +0200
  [PATCH] leftpad.2: Document new syscall Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2016-04-01 00:40 +0200
  Re: New syscall: leftpad() Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2016-04-01 01:40 +0200
    Re: New syscall: leftpad() Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2016-04-01 10:10 +0200

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