[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-08-06 17:15, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <pk6ul3$u10$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
>>
>> Things such as file I/O that are not in libc on most systems.
> 
>     ? I think you need to be more specific than that.  Are you claiming
>     that a compiler on UNIX would have to use ioctl()?

Even ioctl() is a C-like function in a library, that in turn does the 
actual system call, which is a piece of assembler code.

Not that I know what it would use ioctl() for, but anyhow. I would 
normally expect that on a C-like system, the system calls at the bottom 
end is mostly open(), read(), write(), close(), and possibly fstat().
(Oh, and maybe lseek())

   Johnny

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