Where can I obtain a list of UNIX system calls?

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Oleg Razgulyaev picture Oleg Razgulyaev · Apr 20, 2010 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

Where are some lists of system calls on UNIX?

This wasn't my original question, but thanks anyway :)

Answer

Ken Bloom picture Ken Bloom · Apr 20, 2010

man 2 syscalls

Aside from that, you can look in /usr/include/sys/syscall.h (which on my system merely #includes /usr/include/bits/syscall.h). That's generated at libc build time from kernel syscall list.

You can also grep the Linux kernel source for SYSCALL_DEFINE. (I'm not a BSD expert, but I think the equivalent in FreeBSD is SYSCALL_MODULE)

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