Greg A. Woods writes:

>Your example was flawed though, even for its intent, since it did not
>describe "the only valid behaviour in the current framework".  In fact

Greg, in my opinion it is.  The functionality you describe for
sure is something desirable but it probably would be better kept
as an ordinary utility function in libc, perhaps with a different
name.  As a syscall, as I have voiced in my opinion, it simply
doesn't fit (imho, of course).

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  Matthias Buelow;  mkb@{mukappabeta.de,informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de}