* Hyman Rosen: > For example, the system call "write" in UNIX is described in the > C programming language as 'int write(int fd, char *buffer, int len)' > meaning that it takes three arguments - an integer representing the > output device or file to which to write, the address of a buffer > containing the data to be written, and an integer giving the number > of bytes of data to write - and returns an integer representing the > number of bytes actually written.
Now make it printf, or gettext, or __divdi3. None of them provides a thin wrapper around some other subsystem service. I don't think there are many UNIX-like systems which are structured that way (fat kernel and thin userspace). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
