syscall(2) function

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

The workstation installation floppies at Project Athena are severely
limited by space -- they must fit on a 1.2meg floppy (for a VAX
workstation) or on 2 1.2meg floppies (for an IBM RT).  We can't
include a different binary for every system call we need to use, so we
write one binary with a simple interface to syscall() and then write
shell scripts to do what the rest of the binaries would do.

Works great for us :-)


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