On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Krishnappa Abhijith-A21204 wrote:
>             "Process system calls must be nullified in the host, and
> this is done by converting them into getpid. "
> How is system calls  are nullified by converting them to getpid() ?

Instead of calling the actual system call, it just calls getpid(). I.e. the
actual system call is not executed, and getpid() is more or less a NOP.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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