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From: kers@otter.HP.COM (Christopher Dollin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: system
Message-ID: <1670009@otter.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 88 16:21:12 GMT
References: <127@dcrbg1.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories,Bristol,UK.
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[someone has said that "mkdir" must be system-ed].

Duh ... well, in HP-UX, -mkdir- is a system call. But the manual says that
some implementations "may run mkdir" from a library routine.

If -mkdir- (in a program) isn't a system call, how does -mkdir- (the program)
work? How come it wasn't a system call anyway?

Regards, | "Those who understand Unix are compelled to prefect it".
Kers     | (to prefect - to perfect, as in Ford Prefects use of "safe".