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Date: Thu,  8 Jan 2009 12:22:02 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] two quick questions on syscalls
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> Hi!
>
> 1. are the ones starting from underscore totally deprecated?
> 2. what's the use for sysr1?
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.

To answer #2:
I found sysr1 useful while fiddling with devtrace, because it's a
syscall that does nothing.  In addition to providing insights to how
long it takes to enter a syscall and return, it also gave me a place
to put in syscall things I wanted to test.



John

PS: I'm sitting in an engineering lab near a couple of shrill freshmen
arguing KDE vs.  GNOME...  apparently they just discovered Linux
because nobody has mentioned any other window manager in the whole 30
minutes.