Thursday, December 29, 2011

System Calls

Discuss System calls and its requirement

In computing, a system call is how a program requests a service from an operating system's kernel. This may include hardware related services (e.g. accessing the hard disk), creating and executing new processes, and communicating with integral kernel services (like scheduling). System calls provide the interface between a process and the operating system.

Useful Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_call
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/syscall/syscall86.html

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