Re: BSD sockets with sys_socketcall

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On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:23:27PM -0700, Prasad Koya wrote:
> How does socket(), bind() and other BSD socket API
> calls in user applications are handled by system
> socketcall(). Does the compiler (say gcc) substitute
> socket() in user app with socketcall(SYS_SOCKET,..)?

   You are using libc wrappers which translate the BSD API
   to Linux kernel ABI.

> Thanks

/Matti Aarnio
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