Re: Differences between FreeBSD and Linux system call mechanism

Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Thu, 03 Sep 1998 16:32:07 +0100

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>Doesn't this mean that it would be a good idea to let the kernel
>implement system calls by mapping a page into user-space containing
>the appropriate assembly instructions to most efficiently do the
>system calls?

A mechanism exists to let you load different bits of libc depending on the CPU
type.

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