From owner-cvs-all Thu Dec 19 9:26:32 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB34C37B41A for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:26:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C46D43EDA for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:26:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 14795 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2002 17:26:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 19 Dec 2002 17:26:33 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBJHQRUT018850; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:26:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200212181654.gBIGswYP062315@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:26:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Garrett Wollman Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys _exit.2 accept.2 access.2 acct. Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-Dec-2002 Garrett Wollman wrote: > < 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.) I agree and think they should be called function calls again. Ruslan, are you going to respond to this? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message