[9fans] syscall paper

[9fans] syscall paper

[john]

I've recently written a short document on the process of adding a new
system call to Plan 9.  In anticipation of numerous attacks on my
intelligence and the inevitable questioning of the legitimacy of my
parentage, no, I do not endorse the reckless addition of system calls.
I most definitely do not suggest that "kgetpid" should actually go
into the kernel; it's purely an example, one that requires very little
code to implement.

The paper is in /n/sources/contrib/john/syscall.ps or, for you fakers
who don't have Plan 9 boxes,
http://cm.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/john/syscall.ps

Comments and corrections are welcome; flames about how I have lost the
way will be mocked.

John

Re: [9fans] syscall paper

[geoff]

We're reorganising our external web servers, and had intended to make
the change transparent to people on the outside, but publishing urls
like

	http://cm.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/john/syscall.ps

confuses things.  plan9 and cm are being pulled apart, so it would be
much better to publish the (currently equivalent) url

	http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/john/syscall.ps

In general, plan 9 stuff will not be found under cm in future, and
vice versa.