Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!sco!seanf From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: want to know Message-ID: <3163@scolex.sco.COM> Date: 12 Aug 89 20:18:24 GMT References: <8487@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <2980@solo9.cs.vu.nl> <182@sunquest.UUCP> <664@laic.UUCP> <14269@haddock.ima.isc.com> Reply-To: seanf@scolex.UUCP (Sean Fagan) Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 23 In article <14269@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: >In article <664@laic.UUCP> darin@nova.UUCP (Darin Johnson) writes: >>Also, for you confusion, most UNIX kernels do not start at main() or even >>have a main()... >Which is, btw, also consistent with the pANS, which states: "In a freestanding >environment It's ok, 'cause he's wrong here, as well. Every Unix kernel I've looked at (i.e., all of them I could get my grubby little hands on 8-)) had a main. The kernels I'm running on right now (at home, called up to work, rlogin'd to another machine) all have a main in them. Hold on a sec. Yep, just took a look at the 4.3 kernel sources, and it has a main, as well. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "Uhm, excuse me..." seanf@sco.UUCP | -- James T. Kirk (William Shatner), ST V: TFF (408) 458-1422 | Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employers'.