Re: Fwd: System Calls on Hurd

2014-01-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
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System Calls on Hurd

2014-01-17 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
So I was reading about system calls this week and I noticed that generally we write wrappers which handle the syscalls from programs. So if a system call is encountered, it calls this wrapper which then makes calls to the kernel to perform the task. So I presume that this wrapper is glibc in Hurd,