In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Nelson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But isn't there some SVR4 ABI standard that says "you must implement
> these syscalls and these ioctls this way", etc? I'm sure the ABI
> explicitly says what lseek() takes for arguments, for example.
The SVR4 ABI specification doesn't say anything about system calls
-- it just specifies what libc has to provide. (Actually in my old
printed copy of the spec, they call the system interface library
"libsys".) The library has to provide a certain kind of lseek(),
for example, but the ABI standard says nothing about how that is
implemented lower down.
John
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