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Re: New syscall: leftpad()

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Please be more careful in your description...

On 03/31/16 15:33, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Recent happenings in the node.js community showed how fragile software is when
> it comes to dependencies of fundamental algorithms like leftpad[1].
> A node.js package which provided ledpad vanished and broke a lot of software.

                                   leftpad

> This raised our attention and we came to the conclusion that it is the kernel's
> job to provide such functionality such that node.js based applications can in future
> rely in Linux's "don't break userspace" rule.
> We hope that glibc and Andoid's bionic will soon offer wrapper functions for this

                         Android's

> new leftpad system call.
> We put leftpad into the kernel not only because of Linux's stable ABI,
> also for performance reasons.
> As everyone knows, within the kernel everything is faster and better.
> Leftpad has millions of users, so it has to be as fast as possible.
> This new system call will also help making services like left-pad.io[2]
> faster and more reliable. If the leftpad() system call gets adopted by a wider user base
> it might also make sense to add a generic npm() system call which acts like ioctl()
> where kernel modules can register new functions that are often used by node.js.
> Such functions might be, is_array(), is_int(), etc.


-- 
~Randy

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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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