From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Pipes in the Third Edition Unix
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:51:22 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701051149090.86981@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170103220407.GA29268@minnie.tuhs.org>
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:
> Interestingly, the pipe manpage says:
> SYNOPSIS sys pipe / pipe = 42.; not in assembler
>
> and I don't quite understand the comment :-) Other manpages with
> the same comment are boot(2), csw(2), fpe(2), kill(2), rele(2), sleep(2),
> sync(2) and times(2). So it's not particular to pipe(2).
>
> Can anybody help explain the "not in assembler" comment?
As I recall, it means that those symbols are not recognised by the
assembler, so had to be defined by hand.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-05 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-03 20:54 Diomidis Spinellis
2017-01-03 21:50 ` Clem Cole
2017-01-03 21:53 ` Warren Toomey
2017-01-03 22:04 ` Warren Toomey
2017-01-03 22:20 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-01-05 0:51 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-01-03 22:14 Norman Wilson
2017-01-03 23:52 Noel Chiappa
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