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From: "Iruata Souza" <iru.muzgo@gmail.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 01:16:26 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d1c554290803212116m6368b096td6a50fe1ae7fe948@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B563A71F-4ABF-4B81-9B72-A874E43D575B@mac.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-22  4:16 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 [this message]
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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