-1) optional arguments
+1) optional arguments (e.g. OPEN)
3) partial list of section 2 manpages from Debian Linux box: functions
we may want to consider interfaces for. Some of the obviously
adding.
FD_CLR FD_ISSET FD_SET FD_ZERO accept acct adjtime adjtimex bdflush
-bind break brk cacheflush capget capset chroot clone connect creat
-create_module delete_module execve exit fcntl fdatasync flock fork
-fstat fstatfs fsync ftime ftruncate getcontext getdents getdomainname
+bind break brk cacheflush capget capset chroot clone connect
+create_module delete_module execve exit flock
+fstatfs ftime getcontext getdents getdomainname
getdtablesize getgroups gethostid gethostname getitimer
getpeername getpriority getrlimit getrusage getsockname getsockopt
-gettimeofday gtty idle init_module ioctl ioctl_list ioperm iopl listen
-llseek lock lseek lstat madvise mincore mknod mlock mlockall
+gettimeofday gtty idle init_module ioctl_list ioperm iopl listen
+llseek lock madvise mincore mknod mlock mlockall
modify_ldt mount mprotect mpx mremap msgctl msgget msgop msgrcv msgsnd
-msync munlock munlockall nanosleep nice open pause pipe poll
+munlock munlockall nanosleep nice pause poll
prctl pread prof profil pselect ptrace pwrite query_module quotactl
-read readdir readlink readv reboot recv recvfrom recvmsg rename rmdir
+read readlink readv reboot recv recvfrom recvmsg
sbrk sched_get_priority_max sched_get_priority_min sched_getparam
sched_getscheduler sched_rr_get_interval sched_setparam
sched_setscheduler sched_yield select semctl semget semop send
sendfile sendmsg sendto setcontext setdomainname setgroups sethostid
sethostname setitimer setpgrp setpriority setrlimit setsid setsockopt
settimeofday sgetmask shmat shmctl shmdt shmget shmop shutdown
- sigaction sigaltstack sigblock siggetmask sigmask signal sigpause
+sigaction sigaltstack sigblock siggetmask sigmask signal sigpause
sigpending sigprocmask sigreturn sigsetmask sigsuspend sigvec socket
-socketcall socketpair ssetmask stat statfs stime stty swapoff swapon
-symlink sync syscalls sysctl sysfs sysinfo syslog time times truncate
-ulimit umask umount uname ustat utime utimes vfork vhangup wait wait3
-wait4 waitpid write writev
+socketcall socketpair ssetmask statfs stime stty swapoff swapon
+syscalls sysctl sysfs sysinfo syslog time times
+ulimit umount uname ustat utime utimes vfork vhangup wait3
+wait4 write writev
4) In the spec but not implemented:
buffers, etc... It may be more efficient to just compare two integers
than going thru an exception mechanism that will be invoked everytime.
+9) proper alien definitions of structures [ possibly an sb-grovel
+problem, but the way we define calls exposes the problem -- see
+readdir() ] [ isn't this done? ]
-
+10) some functions (e.g. fdatasync, putenv) have a return value which
+is purely an error indicator. Currently we're returning the 0 on
+success, but maybe it would make more sense for them to return
+(values).