PERFORCE change 134061 for review

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 25 01:56:11 PST 2008


On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, John Birrell wrote:

> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=134061
>
> Change 134061 by jb at jb_freebsd1 on 2008/01/25 05:46:34
>
> 	On Solaris, it seems to be pronounced "exit", but it's spelt "rexit".
> 	On FreeBSD edit is just exit.

Historically, odd spellings of this sort (in the FreeBSD kernel "exit" is 
"sys_exit") have been because exit(3) is not the same as sys_exit(2), as it 
runs at_exit handlers, etc.  Since it's the syscall handler in DTrace, 
presumably that potential ambiguity doesn't actually play out, but it's worth 
keeping a wary eye out for...

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge


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