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* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 18:50 +0530, Gaurav Dhiman wrote: > > yes, definetely a historical reason. System libraries need to know > > this vector to invoke system call. > > nowadays it's also mostly unused; sysenter and friends are used > instead and they don't use this entry point. note that some system-calls are still invoked via int80 by glibc, such as fork() - even on sysenter/syscall capable CPUs. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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