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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ Open is a bit complex because it finds its way to the eventual translator, but for a mere file on the root filesystem, what happens boils down to calling the dir_lookup function against the root filesystem. This is an RPC from the fs interface (see fs.defs). The implementation of the function is thus actually -generated using mig during the glibc build in RPC_dir_lookup.c. This generated -function essentially encodes the parameters into a data buffer, and makes a -mach_msg system call to send the buffer to the root filesystem port, with the -dir_lookup RPC id. +generated from the fs.defs file using mig during the glibc build in RPC_dir_lookup.c. +This generated function essentially encodes the parameters into +a data buffer, and makes a mach_msg system call to send the buffer to the root +filesystem port, with the dir_lookup RPC id. The root filesystem, for instance ext2fs, was sitting in its main loop (libdiskfs/init-first.c, master_thread_function()), which calls |