beginnings of a low-level syscall library

R=ken
OCL=13483
CL=13496

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diff --git a/src/syscall/syscall.go b/src/syscall/syscall.go
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+// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package syscall
+
+// for simplicity of addressing in assembler, all integers are 64 bits
+// in these calling sequences.
+
+func open(*byte, int64) (ret int64, errno int64);
+func close(int64) (ret int64, errno int64);
+func read(int64, *byte, int64) (ret int64, errno int64);
+func write(int64, *byte, int64) (ret int64, errno int64);
+
+export open, close, read, write