Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:26:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys _exit.2 accept.2 access.2 acct. Message-ID: <XFMail.20021219122626.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200212181654.gBIGswYP062315@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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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? -- 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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