From owner-cvs-all Thu Dec 19 9:44:11 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 B400D37B40D for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:44:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0200843ED1 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:44:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 13237 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2002 17:44:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 19 Dec 2002 17:44:08 -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 gBJHi2UT018910; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:44:02 -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: Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:44:01 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: John Baldwin Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys _exit.2 accept.2 access.2 acct. Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Wollman 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 19-Dec-2002 John Baldwin wrote: > > 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? Nevermind, ETOOMUCHEMAIL. My apologies for implying that you had ignored the earlier message Ruslan. -- 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