[lug] talking directly to a printer

Thu Jan 9 09:45:09 MST 2003

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:15:45AM -0700, Peter Hutnick wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Anyway, does that mean that the answer is no, there isn't a list of system
> calls?
> 

Why would you ever want to use a system call directly? They are meant to be
used by libraries (most notably libc) that provide convenient wrappers arround
the raw calls (setting up system calls is a bit tricky, they have a rather
unconventional style of parameter passing etc.)

A nice starting pointer to all the symbols exported from your kernel is
'/boot/System.map' ;-)

  hth  Ralf Mattes

> -Peter
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