Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:23:27 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: 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 Message-ID: <20021219132023.A28577-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200212181654.gBIGswYP062315@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 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 mostly agree, but note that system calls are still carefully separated from functions by putting them in a separate manpage section. The threaded case already bogotifies this separation. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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