Saturday, July 5, 2008

Definition of System Call

The invocation of an operating system routine. Operating systems contain sets of routines for performing various low-level operations. For example, all operating systems have a routine for creating a directory. If you want to execute an operating system routine from a program, you must make a system call.
A request by an active process for a service performed by the UNIX system kernel, such as I/O or process creation.

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