Re: [ECOS] question about "sys_write() " call.

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

Mark Salter wrote:
> 
> >>>>> Jonathan Larmour writes:
> 
> > Tony Ko wrote:
> >>
> >> hi.
> >> what's for "sys_write" call ( on sys_generic.c ).
> >> does it have something with system call?
> >> then when is this called?
> 
> > It's called by GNU applications linked with newlib, not eCos.
> 
> That would be the sys_write in redboot. The sys_write in
> sys_generic.c is something else.

Ah, oops, yes. There are two sys_writes around. The other one is in the BS
net stack and is only used when not using the fileio package. In that case
it is the underlying implementation of write(). It's only called
"sys_write" because it came from the BSD kernel.

Jifl
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