From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] System call mania
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:44:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D08D06BD-06AA-44A0-9738-83E0BCC2A666@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1c554290803212141qb960a25pc333a28812107460@mail.gmail.com>
It suggests to me that these calls are the lowest level of
communication with the kernel. I once thought that all system calls
could be called by a program :-P
On Mar 22, 2008, at 12:41 AM, Iruata Souza wrote:
> On 3/22/08, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
>> That confirmed one suspicion: the REAL calls are those who are simply
>> named in /sys/src/libc/9syscall/sys.h, and that the USER-LEVEL calls
>> are a big mess in libc. Thanks!
>>
>
> doesn't the name system call suggests you something?
>
> iru
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-22 4:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-22 3:01 Pietro Gagliardi
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 [this message]
2008-03-22 5:32 ` ron minnich
2008-03-22 13:02 ` Pietro Gagliardi
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