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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Why use pwd(1) for getpwd(3C)? (Re: Why use find?)
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Date: 22 Oct 90 00:54:22 GMT
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In article <21628:Oct1400:12:2990@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
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>Oh, give it a rest. Everything in the POSIX book is a system call.

POSIX specifies an _interface_.  A system call is specific to the
implementation and not to the _interface_.  An _interface_ may be
implemented as a system call.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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