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Subject: Re: Looking for  syscalls documentation pointers.
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Sd=C3=A4vtaker <sdavtaker@gmail.com> writes:
> I was reading the syscalls.master and it only says the number and name
> of the syscall, and only few are documented at man.

Look harder.  Almost all FreeBSD system calls have a man page.

> Any idea who could have that kind of documentation?
> As example, what determines the permitions of a just created file?

The second argument to creat(2) or the third argument to open(2).

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