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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:09:21 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Dan Seguin <dseg@texar.com>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Kernel APIs - Solaris 
Message-ID:  <199910141909.NAA54591@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:24:50 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910141317030.92272-100000@pak2.texar.com> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910141317030.92272-100000@pak2.texar.com>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910141317030.92272-100000@pak2.texar.com> Dan Seguin writes:
: As I mentioned in my post, we're looking for the Kernel API specs. We
: don't need the source, just the (credible, authoritive) info on Kernel
: functions and their return values.

No such animal exists.  Sun has many levels of API commitment from the
"gotta have it won't change" to the "put in on the whim of a developer
to make some system utility easier to code, but will be gutted if the
wind changes".  The former are documented well in the man pages for
man(2), while the latter are generally undocumented.

Warner


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