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    How are System Calls Implemented Devdatta Gangal 00D05006 Manish Mirchandani computer science and engineering department Indian institute of technology, Bombay. Low Level Operations Location in the kernel a process can jump to Bridge between user application and system hardware. Unique identifying number for each system call Behavior similar to interupts and exceptions Registers and the number of the system call pushed onto stack Context switch if required.

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    How are System Calls Implemented

    Devdatta Gangal 00D05006 Manish Mirchandani 00D05005


    devdatta@cse.iitb.ac.in manishm@cse.iitb.ac.in

    Computer Science and Engineering Department Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

    Course presentation 03 p.1/4

    What are System Calls

    Low Level Operations Location in the kernel a process can jump to Bridge between user application and system hardware Only way to access kernel facilities

    Course presentation 03 p.2/4

    Implementation

    Unique identifying number for each system call Behavior similar to interupts and exceptions Registers and the number of the system call pushed onto stack Context switch if required After complettion back to calling procedure

    Course presentation 03 p.3/4

    References
    http://www.linux-tutorial.info/cgi-bin/display.pl http://www.linux.it/kerneldocs/ksys/

    Course presentation 03 p.4/4

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