From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 10:10:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] ed.c on Unix v5 Message-ID: <20151219151038.77D7A18C0A3@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > From: Random832 > Non-existent syscalls map to nosys, which sets u_error to 100 ... which > causes the process to be sent a signal SIGSYS. Oh, right, I'd forgotten that. So, getting back to v6tar, I'll bet that if you try and use it to _read_ a TAR file file under V6 (i.e. write files into the V6 filesystem), it will bomb out (because of the call to utime). Noel