On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 03:44:49PM -0400, valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:29:29 -0000, Nicholas Mc Guire said: > > > Note that you can do system calls directly with system() but that is > > generaly not how you do it - you to through the glibc calls > > which do some checks before invoking the actual system call. > > system() does a fork/exec of a process. > > syscall() issues an arbitrary system call, but all marshalling of > parameters and return codes becomes your problem yup - sorry - my bad - thats what I actually had in mind but did not check. thanks for your correction ! thx! hofrat _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
