On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Alex LIU wrote: > Hi: > > With either of syscall() or _syscallN() we can define a system call in the > user space program.I think they do the same work.What's the difference > between them? Thanks! > > Alex
This is described in the manual page for syscalss ~: man syscalls .... 164 system calls.. depending on your kernel version.. etc.. Roughly speaking, the code belonging to the system call with number __NR_xxx defined in /usr/include/asm/unistd.h can be found in the kernel source in the routine sys_xxx(). ...... etc... ...... J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs