Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 08:55:55 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where the heck is the source to open(2)? Message-ID: <199705060656.IAA02925@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199705060543.WAA05325@schizo.cdsnet.net> from Jaye Mathisen at "May 5, 97 10:43:20 pm"
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In reply to Jaye Mathisen who wrote:
>
> I can find stdio fopen's, I can find opendir()'s, but for the life of me, I can't
> find the stupid source to open(2). I can even find the man page for it...
>
> What the heck tool do I use to manage identifiers across 8 kazillion files?
>
Well, there is no source for open :)
Nah, thats only partly true, look in lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc and
you'l see how the "source" is generated from various include files.
Open and friends are not really functions, they are systemcalls, and
get translated directly into that...
> Anyway, any tip appreciated.
You got it :)
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Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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