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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] System call mania
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:01:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B563A71F-4ABF-4B81-9B72-A874E43D575B@mac.com> (raw)

Hello. I was recently looking in libc when I noticed a few things
about system calls:

1) brk and sbrk are implemented atop brk_, which is not documented
2) the seek function seems to be a system call, but the alpha folder
defines a function seek which calls _seek
3) Some items in that file have underscores, like BRK_ and _READ

This leads me to the following question: what exactly are the system
calls in Plan 9?

Thanks.



             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-22  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-22  3:01 Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2008-03-22  4:16 ` Iruata Souza
2008-03-22  4:33   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-22  4:41     ` Iruata Souza
2008-03-22  4:44       ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-22  5:32         ` ron minnich
2008-03-22 13:02           ` Pietro Gagliardi

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