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authorJoshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>2018-11-26 11:51:44 -0500
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2018-11-27 22:14:38 +0100
commitbc652bac4ffedfb0444100a027727a5ea9dcee75 (patch)
tree35bd136c68dfc6b170d5f359306ff5465c4309dd /system_call.mdwn
parent28b24f2286a8fdea2670cfacbdd252a697dbb10f (diff)
I added mach_msg to the gnumach syscall page. I tried to add some more information to the rpc and syscall pages.
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@@ -10,11 +10,13 @@ is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
In an [[UNIX]]-like system, a *system call* (*syscall*) is used to request all
-kinds of functionality from the operating system kernel.
+kinds of functionality from the operating system kernel. On GNU/Linux, glibc
+translates function calls to system calls by packing arguments appropriately
+and using that trap or syscall instruction.
A [[microkernel]]-based system typically won't offer a lot of system calls --
-apart from one central one, and that is *send message* -- but instead [[RPC]]s
-will be used instead.
+apart from one central one, and that is *send message* (mach_msg) -- but
+instead [[RPC]]s will be used instead.
See [[GNU Mach's system calls|microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall]].
In the [[GNU Hurd|hurd]], a lot of what is traditionlly considered to be a UNIX