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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:44:35 -0400
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] System call mania
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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
>