On Monday, April 24, 2000, Brian O'Shea wrote:
> Yea, I took a look at lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_read.c too, but it
> didn't paint the whole picture for me.  Specifically, I couldn't find
> the definition for the _thread_sys_read() function.  It looks like the
> polling magic to which Jason Evans referred occurs in some interesting
> code in uthread_kern.c, though.

   _thread_sys_read() is the real read(2) syscall.  They're
renamed to ``_thread_sys_SYSCALL()'' for the purpose of
reimplementing them in a thread-friendly manner, as you see with
read() there.

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