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fookertoday at 10:37 AM2 repliesview on HN

I had to implement system calls in xv6.

You can look up which top tier schools use it for OS classes.


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glhaynestoday at 11:10 AM

At the risk of getting further off-topic: what sort of system calls did they have you implement? I’ve never done but a tiny bit of kernel hacking and that sounds like a good exercise, but I’m not sure what would be a good first syscall to add.

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eschatontoday at 10:56 AM

Oh, is that what MIT’s using these days?