The Linux System Call Execution Model: An Insight
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In the first article in this two-part series, published in the August 2024 issue of OSFY, we discussed the role of the C library in system call execution. We talked of how the C library loads system call arguments into architecture-specific registers, generating syscall interrupt, which switches the mode from the user to the kernel.
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In this final part we will discuss what happens after this — how the kernel handles and executes the system call request on behalf of the user space application, and sends the return value of the system call value back to the user application. Full Story |
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