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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys _exit.2 accept.2 access.2 acct.2
         adjtime.2 aio_cancel.2 aio_error.2 aio_read.2 aio_return.2
         aio_suspend.2 aio_waitcomplete.2 aio_write.2 bind.2 brk.2 chdir.2
         chflags.2 chmod.2 chown.2 chroot.2 clock_gettime.2 close.2 ...
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<<On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 01:22:37 -0800 (PST), Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> 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.)

-GAWollman


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