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From: Tim Wright <timw@splhi.com>
To: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
Cc: LA Walsh <law@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unistd.h and 'extern's and 'syscall' "standard(?)"
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And furthermore, it's been around in Unix and unix-like systems for a very long
time. Sounds like the lack of man page is an oversight. Anybody want to write
one ?

Tim

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:38:24PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >of action to take.  Seeing as you work for suse, would you know
> >where this 'syscall(3)' interface should be documented?  Is it
> >supposed to be present in all distro's?  
> 
> It's documented in the glibc manual.  Yes, it should be present in all glibc 
> based distributions.
> 
> p.
> 
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