Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: syscall(2) function (really: syscall(3))
Message-ID: <1073@vsi.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 89 21:05:27 GMT
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Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <807@necisa.necisa.oz>, boyd@necisa.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes:
> This discussion is really getting beyond the pale.  The _correct_
> evaluation is probably three-fold:

There's another one.  I recally from a V7 man page (From the Onyx, RIP)
talking about syscall that it was implemented so pure-text programs could
do variable system calls without needing to write to their own text
space.

     Steve

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