Re: quick online tutorial on system calls

2012-10-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Abhijit Pawar wrote: > Nice article. > May be you would like to add below points as well. > 1. Some pointers on context switch when system call is invoked. > 2. Data transfer between user and kernel mode in brief. > 3. Mention of user mode helper calls in kernel. > > I am no

Re: quick online tutorial on system calls

2012-10-17 Thread Abhijit Pawar
On 17 Oct 2012 20:31, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > another in an ongoing series of things i'm just throwing together, > mostly to document stuff for my own benefit to use later in courseware > when i figure out what to do with it. here's a summary i wrote this > morning on system calls, whic

quick online tutorial on system calls

2012-10-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
another in an ongoing series of things i'm just throwing together, mostly to document stuff for my own benefit to use later in courseware when i figure out what to do with it. here's a summary i wrote this morning on system calls, which turned out to be longer than i'd planned (it just kind of