Re: [9fans] System call mania

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

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!

On Mar 22, 2008, at 12:16 AM, Iruata Souza wrote:

> On 3/22/08, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> grep -i syscall /sys/src/9/port
>
> iru
>