On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:29:29 -0000, Nicholas Mc Guire said: > Note that you can do system calls directly with system() but that is > generaly not how you do it - you to through the glibc calls > which do some checks before invoking the actual system call.
system() does a fork/exec of a process. syscall() issues an arbitrary system call, but all marshalling of parameters and return codes becomes your problem
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