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Information about system calls
Name: Zulfi Khan Date: September 10, 2002 at 10:05:58 Pacific OS: 4.3BSD CPU/Ram: Intel P5-133 RAM:32MB
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Hi, Can somebody tell me about system call? How they help us to access Kernel code? Are they assembly language programs? What is the purpose of wrapper functions like create.o , open.o & son on.
Name: Jerry Lemieux Date: September 10, 2002 at 14:55:45 Pacific
Reply:
Read:
The Magic Garden Explained: The Internals of Unix System V, Release 4 An Open Systems Design by Berny Goodheart. He will answer all your questions. Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by Stevens is also a good one. Or the Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan is excellent. If you are more interested in Linux, there are many books that explain Linux internals. Try:
www.amazon.com
Jerry
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Response Number 2
Name: Zulfi Khan Date: September 11, 2002 at 06:19:07 Pacific
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Hi, Thanks.I have got many books on Unix. There are some prob. which are solved by discussion. That's why I put it on the forum.
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