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2.6 KiB
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71 lines
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.\" $NetBSD: sysarch.2,v 1.15 2003/08/07 16:44:10 agc Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
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.\" from: @(#)syscall.2 6.3 (Berkeley) 3/10/91
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.Dd October 11, 1993
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.Dt SYSARCH 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm sysarch
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.Nd architecture-dependent system call
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In machine/sysarch.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn sysarch "int number" "void *args"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Fn sysarch
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performs the architecture-dependent function
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specified by
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.Fa number
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with the arguments specified by the
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.Fa args
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pointer.
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.Fa args
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is a pointer to a structure defining the actual arguments of the function.
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Symbolic constants and argument structures for the architecture-dependent
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functions can be found in the header file
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.Ao Pa machine/sysarch.h Ac .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn sysarch
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system call should never be called directly by user programs.
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Instead, they should access its functions using the architecture-dependent
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library.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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See the manual pages for specific architecture-dependent function calls
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for information about their return values.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn sysarch
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function call appeared in
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.Nx 1.0 .
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