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Date:      Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:28:11 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Syscall as weak symbols
Message-ID:  <199804281128.VAA29547@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>This seems reasonable, provided weak symbols work right now.  I would
>>prefer a prefix of `__' or even `_' instead of `_syscall_'.
>
>Why?  It seems to me that leading underscores are now over used and
>essentially meaningless.  A prefix of _syscall_ has meaning, and we
>are not in danger of overflowing identifier length limits.

The implementation method shouldn't be encoded in interface names.

Bruce

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