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From: Zenin <zenin@best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: writing my own system calls
Date: 18 Jul 1997 02:14:20 GMT
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Thomas D. Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Look at /usr/src/sys/kern/syscalls.* and the other files in
> that directory.

> The book The Magic Garden Explained, Goodheart & Cox, Prentice-Hall
> has some good descriptions of system calls.

	Isn't that book heavly SysV based?  Wouldn't The Design and
	Implementation of the BSD 4.4 Operating System be a better
	choice for info on FreeBSD system calls internals?

-- 
-Zenin
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