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Re: syscall implementation

Subject: Re: syscall implementation
From: Justin Walker <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 19:00:22 -0700


On May 2, 2005, at 18:45, Bijoy Thomas wrote:

How are system calls implemented in Mac OS X? Are they implemented as software interrupts as in Linux? How does the argument passing from user space to kernel space take place? Any info/docs/links would be greatly appreciated.


Use 'cscope' on the kernel and look for "syscall" as a "C symbol".

Regards,

Justin

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