From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: <13426df10803212232hc7f380h71ca7c4d65313a3c@mail.gmail.com> References: <13426df10803212232hc7f380h71ca7c4d65313a3c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:02:24 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] System call mania Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7df7c4ee-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I was tired and I used the wrong words. On Mar 22, 2008, at 1:32 AM, ron minnich wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Pietro Gagliardi > wrote: >> 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 >> > > why do you think that they can't be? > > ron >