minix/lib/libsys/taskcall.c
David van Moolenbroek 80bd109cd3 libsys: various updates
- move system calls for use by services from libminlib into libsys;
- move srv_fork(2) and srv_kill(2) from RS and into libsys;
- replace getprocnr(2) with sef_self(3);
- rename previous getnprocnr(2) to getprocnr(2);
- clean up getepinfo(2);
- change all libsys calls that used _syscall to use _taskcall, so as
  to avoid going through errno to pass errors; this is already how
  most calls work anyway, and many of the calls previously using
  _syscall were already assumed to return the actual error;
- initialize request messages to zero, for future compatibility
  (note that this does not include PCI calls, which are in need of a
  much bigger overhaul, nor kernel calls);
- clean up more of dead DS code as a side effect.

Change-Id: I8788f54c68598fcf58e23486e270c2d749780ebb
2014-03-01 09:05:00 +01:00

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/* _taskcall() is the same as _syscall() except it returns negative error
* codes directly and not in errno. This is a better interface for PM and
* VFS.
*/
#include <lib.h>
#include <minix/syslib.h>
int _taskcall(who, syscallnr, msgptr)
endpoint_t who;
int syscallnr;
register message *msgptr;
{
int status;
msgptr->m_type = syscallnr;
status = sendrec(who, msgptr);
if (status != 0) return(status);
return(msgptr->m_type);
}