Hi, If I remember correctly, there used to be syscall wrappers (_syscall3() etc) in the kernel that could be used to make system calls without any library support. I'm not able to locate them for i386. Where are they? Thanks, Rajat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs