The environment is needed by package time, which
we want not to depend on os (so that os can use
time.Time), so push down into syscall.
Delete syscall.Sleep, now unnecessary.
The package os environment API is preserved;
it is only the implementation that is moving to syscall.
Delete os.Envs, which was undocumented,
uninitialized on Windows and Plan 9, and
not maintained by Setenv and Clearenv.
Code can call os.Environ instead.
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5370091
- syscall (not os) now defines the Errno type.
- the low-level assembly functions Syscall, Syscall6, and so on
return Errno, not uintptr
- syscall wrappers all return error, not uintptr.
R=golang-dev, mikioh.mikioh, r, alex.brainman
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5372080
I don't know the protocol regarding the zsyscall files which appear to
be hand-generated, so I've re-done them and added them to the change.
R=rsc, alex.brainman, nigeltao
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4975060
Before this change, syscall package would load
all dlls used anywhere in the go tree on startup.
For example, this program:
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Printf("Hello world\n")
}
would load these dlls
kernel32.dll
advapi32.dll
shell32.dll
wsock32.dll
ws2_32.dll
dnsapi.dll
iphlpapi.dll
Most of these dlls are network related and are not used
in this program. Now the same program loads only
kernel32.dll
shell32.dll
This decreases start times somewhat.
This also relaxes the rules of which dlls can be included
in the standard library. We could now include system calls
that are not available on all versions of Windows, because
we could decide if we should call them during runtime.
R=rsc, vcc.163
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4815046