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On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Bruce Evans wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> > to the application.  Do we even want to mention that some calls
> > are renamed to __sys_foo?
> 
> No.  Man pages shouldn't mention any implementation details.

But they should have a cute thread safety table in the style of Solaris
man pages, letting developers know if they're employing a base system
(syscall, library) call that is *not* thread-safe (either at this point,
or in general).

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services




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