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Re: An idea for pthreads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Oct 25 14:53:49 1995
To: David Wragg <dpw93@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Cc: pthreads@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Oct 1995 16:31:48 BST."
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 14:25:59 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> % ld -r -o syscalls.o -u <list of system call symbols ie _write etc>
> /usr/lib/libc.a
The C library system call routines set the global errno value, which
isn't appropriate for a threaded program. There's no way to get at
"just the system call" inside the C library, so the assembly code
really is necessary.
