[9fans] two quick questions on syscalls

Hi! 1. are the ones starting from underscore totally deprecated? 2. what's the use for sysr1? Thanks, Roman.

Re: [9fans] two quick questions on syscalls

Hi! 1. are the ones starting from underscore totally deprecated? 2. what's the use for sysr1? Thanks, Roman. To answer #2: I found sysr1 useful while fiddling with devtrace, because it's a syscall that does nothing. In addition to providing insights to how long it takes to enter a

Re: [9fans] two quick questions on syscalls

the _ ones allow some old binaries to work (mainly useful these days for ancient things on the dump i suppose); sysr1 is for [kernel] debugging and hasn't got a fixed function.---BeginMessage--- Hi! 1. are the ones starting from underscore totally deprecated? 2. what's the use for sysr1? Thanks,

Re: [9fans] two quick questions on syscalls

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Last time I checked, isn't _brk() still used by libc? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAklmdo8ACgkQuv7AVNQDs+w5mQCfZRYkhc4CKRx/nBXL4tSfMNb4 Zu8An2NDriTCXhUnZJj5CGUd0iH7HzVw =iWJP -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [9fans] two quick questions on syscalls

Last time I checked, isn't _brk() still used by libc? that's brk_, which represents a remarkably persistent bit of history