Re: system calls

Andries Brouwer
2005-01-29T18:15:45Z

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:47:38PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:

> System calls are prefixed by "sys_". Thus, read(2) is implemented in
> the kernel as sys_read().

Now that you say this - of course you know that the actual
situation is much more messy. Sometimes I wonder whether
it would be useful to make such a statement more true
and for example change sys_olduname, sys_uname, sys_newuname
into sys_oldolduname, sys_olduname, sys_uname.

Andries