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| | System call table is an array of function pointers. It is defined in kernel space as variable sys_call_table and it contains pointers to functions which implement system calls. Index of each function pointer in the array is the system call number for that syscall. These are denoted by NR_* macros in header files, such as...
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| | System calls are one subject that scares many people. Actually most of the low level stuffs happening on the operating system scares a lot of people. I admit, I was a bit afraid of dealing with this subject. Not because it's hard or anything but because it's something that we're not used to dealing with every day, it's lik...
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| | An explanation of how Linux handles system calls on x86-64 and why they show up as expensive operations in performance profiles
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| I'm a big fan of "the right tool for the right job". For some things, the right tool is a shell script. For others, it is Python. But sometimes... it is both.