Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:50:28 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: IRQ vector assignment for system call exception |
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>> 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.
OT: Any idea when glibc moves to use sysenter on capable CPUs?
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