Re: system calls not intended for user space

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Hi Alex,

On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 07:25, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
<alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> There are some syscalls that are not intended to be used from user
> space.  See restart_syscall(2).  Should I document those as
> syscall(SYS_...) or not?

Yes, this function is an odd case. (Are there others? Perhaps
sigreturn(2) also.)

I think I would just ignore these two. (That is, no changes.)

> How are they called within the kernel?  As
> sys_restart_syscall()?

I'm not sure of the details, I'm sorry.

Thanks,

Michael



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