Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:54:58 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys _exit.2 accept.2 access.2 acct.2 adjtime.2 aio_cancel.2 aio_error.2 aio_read.2 aio_return.2 aio_suspend.2 aio_waitcomplete.2 aio_write.2 bind.2 brk.2 chdir.2 chflags.2 chmod.2 chown.2 chroot.2 clock_gettime.2 close.2 ... Message-ID: <200212181654.gBIGswYP062315@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200212180922.gBI9Mbcj061029@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200212180922.gBI9Mbcj061029@repoman.freebsd.org>
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<<On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 01:22:37 -0800 (PST), Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> said: > Stop calling system calls "function calls". > Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility". I believe that this is a mistake. System calls are a special case of function calls. The standards from which many of these descriptions are taken intentionally do not reference system calls, and neither should we, since the interfaces may move from one side of the boundary to the other. (Many of these are, strictly speaking, function calls in the threaded C library.) -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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