32bit and 64bit syscall issues

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Mon Mar 14 20:12:26 UTC 2005


On Monday 14 March 2005 14:49, Debora Velarde wrote:
> I believe Klaus said he got the info in the file he sent me from the kernel
> syscall table.

I think those are function names, but not the syscall names. For example,  
__NR_chown is chown  and __NR_chown32 is chown32. What function implements 
them is internal to the kernel. User space knows it only by the __NR_ 
notation.

Hope this helps...

-Steve




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