System call status question.

R. Clayton (rclayton@monmouth.edu)
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  Each System Call description has a sentence like "the caller's register 0
  contains the system call status." Does this mean that the OS should fill
  these registers with status (like status::ok) using mem_store()?

Yes; if the os doesn't do it, nothing else will.

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