Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:12:25 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pipe(2) calling convention: why? Message-ID: <71215.1226268745@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:27:46 %2B0100." <20081109192746.GO1165@hoeg.nl>
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In message <20081109192746.GO1165@hoeg.nl>, Ed Schouten writes: >After having a discussion on IRC with some friends of mine about system >call conventions, we couldn't exactly determine why pipe(2)'s calling >convention has to be different from the rest. It will take some time before we can remove the old syscall, but I'd say it is worth it, just for getting more consistency and less pointless magic. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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