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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <pkcs69$btk$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> Yes. When we say "ioctl" we can talk about two different things. Any 
> user mode program who calls ioctl() is calling a routine in user space, 
> which is included from a library. This routine is, by necessity, written 
> in assembler. But it is running in user space.
> 
> This routine in the library sets up the sequence to do the actual system 
> call.

   Nope.  The user mode routine was built into the kernel, and of
   course, the kernel mode routine was also.  Not a separate library.