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Extending system calls

Posted May 15, 2008 8:16 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
Parent article: Extending system calls

Please forgive my obtuseness (obtusity?)... why can't open() be made to do the job of all of
pipe(), socket(), etc., with all the flags and whistles one could want, leaving the
traditional entry points as special cases?

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Posted May 15, 2008 10:01 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

Scratch that.