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Linux System Calls

Issue 75

From Issue #75
July 2000

Jun 30, 2000  By Moshe Bar
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How to use the mechanism provided by the IA32 architecture for handling system calls.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 12/17/2009 - 01:10.

Hi,

Just wanted to know if I want to printk the parameters used in a systemcall how do I go about it? To do so I am trying to access the %eax, %ebx and the other registers used to store the parameters and printk the parameters but not sure how to go about it. I am writing a loadable kernel module to do so. Any idea how to do it?

Thanks in Advance

fork() implementation

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 05:04.

can anyone tell me where assembly routines implementing sysytem call can be found.

Very good article overall.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 02/11/2006 - 12:17.

Very good article overall. But I don't know what software exceptions have to do with interruptions and hardware exceptions; I am pretty sure they are totally unrelated. I think it would be better to focus in hardware exceptions, like arithmetic ones, whose handlers are placed in the vector table.

Much of the content in this a

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 04/28/2005 - 11:40.

Much of the content in this article was taken directly from "How System Calls Work on Linux/i86" by Michael K. Johnson and Stanley Scalsky which is located at this URL:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/syscall/syscall86.html

Copyright (C) 1993, 1996 Michael K. Johnson, johnsonm@redhat.com.
Copyright (C) 1993 Stanley Scalsky

No mention of credit was given by Moshe Bar to the original authors. At the very least this is plagiarism and a blatant copyright violation.

You must not have read the original article, or did you?

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Submitted by Carsten (not verified) on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 04:38.

The two articles are not in the least identical and the article you refer to is not in the least as exhaustive as this article. I would say that Moshe did a good job here at both taking available information by the kernel hackers and, second, providing even more indepth information on how it is actually done.

who cares....

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 09:46.

who cares....

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