Please always keep the mailing list in Cc, so you optimize the chance of getting
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get a terse answer, or have to wait (possibly long) that I have time to provide
a lengthier answer (or simply that I come back from vacation
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,