25 Sep
2017
25 Sep
'17
9:43 a.m.
Where does SysVR2 fit in number of syscalls?
I spent time patching them several months ago...
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On Sep 25, 2017, at 00:41, Andy Kosela
<akosela(a)andykosela.com> wrote:
On Monday, September 25, 2017, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Bakul Shah wrote:
Actually FreeBSD has much more system calls than Linux -- around 540 as compared to
around 300 the last time I looked.
To give a fair perspective -- both UNIX V7 and Plan 9 have around 50 system calls.
And Windoze 7 has more than 700...
--Andy There are just a few potential users of /proc and
they were already using other facilities. plus /proc is an optional facility. All this
conspired to make /proc less useful in FreeBSD. Unused code is in danger of being garbage
collected in FreeBSD :-)
Whatever happened to the Unix philosophy of everything looking like a file? Adding more
system calls is the Windoze (or perhaps Penguin) way of doing things.