On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, SACHIN PRASAD wrote: > Now my problem is how the system call 80h knows that only eax has the > required argument and the second argument is in ecx . Why not the first > argument in ecx register ? It's standardised. Zwane -- function.linuxpower.ca -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/