Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:15:18 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Ramos <rodrigo.ramos@triforsec.com.br>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: system calls
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On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:47:38PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:

> System calls are prefixed by "sys_".  Thus, read(2) is implemented in
> the kernel as sys_read().

Now that you say this - of course you know that the actual
situation is much more messy. Sometimes I wonder whether
it would be useful to make such a statement more true
and for example change sys_olduname, sys_uname, sys_newuname
into sys_oldolduname, sys_olduname, sys_uname.

Andries
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