Hello All. I found out that static libraries are still using int 0x80 to invoke a syscall, and not using the sysenter directive. Do you know why ? In addition, when I checked a few dynamic libraries, I saw that the whelming majority is indeed sysenter calls, but there are a few int 0x80s till out there. for example, in glibc, these are the calls that still uses int 0x80: 2 sys_clones, 1 sys_exit, 1 sys_fork, 1 sys_rt_sigreturn, 1 sys_sigreturn, 1 sys_vfork, 1 sys_pselect6 and another one i couldn't tell in the func __vfork. Do you know why not ALL calls are sysenters ? (btw in the vsyscall page kernel source code there is some comment that it can't handles sys_clone for some reason) Another question is why SYSENTER directives are not embedded directly in the code ? why do they have to use that linux-gate ? Thank You naziir -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
