From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: b4@gewt.net (Cory Smelosky) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:43:06 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: <20170923091704.GD10152@darioniedermann.it> <20170924140617.GG28606@mcvoy.com> <20170924203621.GA80203@wopr> <49B7FCB8-A086-4FFB-AF3B-4B3BD167EC54@bitblocks.com> Message-ID: Where does SysVR2 fit in number of syscalls? I spent time patching them several months ago... Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 25, 2017, at 00:41, Andy Kosela wrote: > > > >> On Monday, September 25, 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Bakul Shah wrote: >> >>> There are just a few potential users of /proc and they were already using other facilities. plus /proc is an optional facility. All this conspired to make /proc less useful in FreeBSD. Unused code is in danger of being garbage collected in FreeBSD :-) >> >> Whatever happened to the Unix philosophy of everything looking like a file? Adding more system calls is the Windoze (or perhaps Penguin) way of doing things. > > Actually FreeBSD has much more system calls than Linux -- around 540 as compared to around 300 the last time I looked. > > To give a fair perspective -- both UNIX V7 and Plan 9 have around 50 system calls. > > And Windoze 7 has more than 700... > > --Andy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: