From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:04:46 -0800 From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-id: <1231045486.11463.245.camel@goose.sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: [9fans] Why do we need syspipe() ? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 771d783e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I'm confused. Is there any part of syspipe() that can NOT be done from userspace? Why does it have to be a syscall? Thanks, Roman. P.S. I would also argue that sysdup() would seem to be superfluous if more feature-rich devdup was available.