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Hi,
I've seen  void (*sv_prepsyscall)(struct trapframe *, int *, u_int *, cad=
dr_t
*);  field in struct sysentvec defined in sys/sysent.h; I've seen it's ca=
ll
be the current process in syscall interrupt 0x80 handling and it seems to=

set number of arguments and base pointer for syscall arguments. It's not
a comment in the code, somebody could tell me what is the task of this fi=
eld?

thanks

rookie