working of syscall handling

2009-04-08 Thread Mehul Chadha
Hello all, I have a doubt in understanding the working of the freebsd OS. In the program given below the function readlink gets called up when printf is executed and the program ends without any output. readlink is a system call (syscall number = 58) which is being made by the

Re: working of syscall handling

2009-04-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 08), Mehul Chadha said: In the program given below the function readlink gets called up when printf is executed and the program ends without any output. readlink is a system call (syscall number = 58) which is being made by the printf function, but according to my

Re: working of syscall handling

2009-04-08 Thread Joseph Koshy
In the program given below the function readlink gets called up when printf is executed and the program ends without any output. readlink is a system call (syscall number = 58) which is being made by the printf function, but according to my understanding of system call, it is made by putting