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From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
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Date: Sat,  8 Feb 2003 09:17:39 -0800
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> My question is -- where is the code for the kernel side of these calls?

Some of the system calls are wrapped in libc first - for example,
read() is a wrapper for pread() - but on average, system call foo is
connected by a trap through a table defined in
/sys/src/9/port/systab.h (generated automatically from
/sys/src/libc/9syscall/sys.h) to a routine in /sys/src/9/port/sys*.c
called sysfoo().  A few later system calls appear in files not
beginning with "sys", a regrettable lapse.

-rob