On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 08:21:04PM -0500, stephen Turner wrote: > > The BSD syscall ABIs I've seen aren't very usable (no way to make a > > syscall without a stack, which is mandatory, and likewise no futex), > > but fortunately you have Linux syscall ABI available on some BSDs. > > So I read that unix dates back to the 60's... who is more accurate to the > unix syscall linux or bsd or other? Im curious who decided it was a good > idea to be different. Gnu im betting...
I suspect this follows the BSD/SYSV split, but I may be mistaken. AFAIK Linux copied the SYSV-style syscall ABIs (and other psABI aspects) for the existing proprietary unices on the platforms it supported (originally, just the SCO ABI on x86). Rich _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
