syscall(2) function (really: syscall(3))

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <807 at necisa.necisa.oz>, boyd at necisa.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes:
> This discussion is really getting beyond the pale.  The _correct_
> evaluation is probably three-fold:

There's another one.  I recally from a V7 man page (From the Onyx, RIP)
talking about syscall that it was implemented so pure-text programs could
do variable system calls without needing to write to their own text
space.

     Steve

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