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Reply-To: "Soumen Biswas" <soumen.biswas@gte.net>
From: "Soumen Biswas" <soumen.biswas@gte.net>
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Subject: __syscall
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Hello, 

What  exactly is the difference between syscall  &  __syscall ? 

And in 

in kern/init_sysent.c 

  struct sysent sysent[] = {
  /* ..... */
 { 3, accept},      
  /*.......*/
}

what does 3 denote ?

I believe it's the total size of all the arguments  in 32 bit words 

soumen




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