On 10/26/05, Florin Malita <fmalita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:50:08 +0530 > Gaurav Dhiman <gaurav4lkg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 10/25/05, Raju RajaRam <oyeraju@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > further calls the system call intreface thru int x080 instruction, > > That's the legacy/compat method, recent systems use > vsyscall/sysenter to switch to kernel mode. > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/531 ...and it all varies by arch. Jon. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
