Prototypes for split syscalls

Hiten Pandya hmp at nxad.com
Mon Aug 25 08:56:28 PDT 2003


On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 02:08:19 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     That seems reasonable.

	I would like to propose that we should the second-level function
	prototypes be named something like syscall_<name>() so that it is much
	easier to recognize, and looks much better on say, when documenting it.


	This is not a big deal, but I would like to see such a convention being
	adopted... IMO.

	Although if anyone has another suggestions, I am all ears.

	Cheers,

	-- Hiten

> :Now that we are splitting copy{in,out} from the actual syscall
> :functions, we need a place to put the prototypes for the second level
> :functions. Because the second level functions have the name of the
> :ordinary syscall suffixed with a numeral one, I think a logical place
> :to put these prototypes is in src/sys/sys/syscall1.h.
> :
> :Any objections?





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