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Re: function squence

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:50:08 +0530
Gaurav Dhiman <gaurav4lkg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/25/05, Raju RajaRam <oyeraju@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> further calls the system call intreface thru int x080 instruction, 

That's the legacy/compat method, recent systems use
vsyscall/sysenter to switch to kernel mode.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/531

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