From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:51:22 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Pipes in the Third Edition Unix
In-Reply-To: <20170103220407.GA29268@minnie.tuhs.org>
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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."