Re: Linux syscalls

From: T.M. Sommers (tms_at_nj.net)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:26:06 -0400

Beth wrote:
>
> Why? Simple...I'm perfectly happy to just read the "man"
> pages...that's what I'm having to do to compile this list,
> anyway...

Be careful. It is possible that some of the C functions do more
than just take the arguments from the stack and put them in
registers and do an int 0x80. I do not know if any do in Linux,
but a handful do in FreeBSD. 

-- 
Thomas M. Sommers -- tms@nj.net -- AB2SB

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