Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:44:01 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys _exit.2 accept.2 access.2 acct. Message-ID: <XFMail.20021219124401.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021219122626.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On 19-Dec-2002 John Baldwin wrote: > > On 18-Dec-2002 Garrett Wollman wrote: >> <<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.) > > I agree and think they should be called function calls again. Ruslan, > are you going to respond to this? Nevermind, ETOOMUCHEMAIL. My apologies for implying that you had ignored the earlier message Ruslan. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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