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Date:      Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:01:44 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, 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:  <20021220080144.GB70051@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021219.211701.128866860.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <200212181654.gBIGswYP062315@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20021219132023.A28577-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20021219095247.GA79372@sunbay.com> <20021219.211701.128866860.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:17:01PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20021219095247.GA79372@sunbay.com>
>             Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : If the consensus is to refer to syscalls as functions, there
> : is also no reason to keep section 2.
>=20
> Actually, there is.  System calls live in section 2, even if they
> aren't called system calls.
>=20
Not enough quoted context:

wollman> since the interfaces may move from one side of the boundary
wollman> to the other.

If an interface moves from a syscall to a library call level,
we should also move its manpage from section 2 to section 3.
If we call syscalls just functions, there's not much point in
keeping a separate section, as it would only give us an
overhead of changing the manpage's section every time an
interface moves.


Cheers,
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