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Re: __NR_shmget undefined

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, krishnan charumathi wrote:

> I believe that every system call should have an entry in 
> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S.  But, when I searched for 
> __NR_shmget , to my surprise there is none related to shared memory or 
> semaphore . So, I am wondering how are,the system calls related to IPC gets 
> executed..

shmget() is a glibc wrapper for syscall ipc(). If you look at sourcecode
of sys_ipc() (arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386 for x86 arch), you will be
enlightened ;)

-- 
JiKos.


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