none — list of all system calls
Linux 2.4 system calls.
The system call is the fundamental interface between an
application and the Linux kernel. As of Linux 2.4.17, there
are 1100 system calls listed in /usr/src/linux/include/asm-*/unistd.h
. This
man page lists those that are common to most platforms.
_llseek(2), _newselect(2), _sysctl(2), accept(2), access(2), acct(2), adjtimex(2), afs_syscall, alarm(2), bdflush(2), bind(2), break, brk(2), cacheflush(2), capget(2), capset(2), chdir(2), chmod(2), chown(2), chown32, chroot(2), clone(2), close(2), connect(2), creat(2), create_module(2), delete_module(2), dup(2), dup2(2), execve(2), exit(2), fchdir(2), fchmod(2), fchown(2), fchown32, fcntl(2), fcntl64, fdatasync(2), flock(2), fork(2), fstat(2), fstat64, fstatfs(2), fsync(2), ftime, ftruncate(2), ftruncate64, get_kernel_syms(2), getcwd(2), getdents(2), getdents64, getegid(2), getegid32, geteuid(2), geteuid32, getgid(2), getgid32, getgroups(2), getgroups32, getitimer(2), getpagesize(2), getpeername(2), getpmsg, getpgid(2), getpgrp(2), getpid(2), getppid(2), getpriority(2), getresgid(2), getresgid32, getresuid(2), getresuid32, getrlimit(2), getrusage(2), getsid(2), getsockname(2), getsockopt(2), gettid, gettimeofday(2), getuid(2), getuid32, gtty, idle, init_module(2), ioctl(2), ioperm(2), iopl(2), ipc(2), kill(2), lchown(2), lchown32, link(2), listen(2), lock, lseek(2), lstat(2), lstat64, madvise(2), mincore(2), mkdir(2), mknod(2), mlock(2), mlockall(2), mmap(2), modify_ldt(2), mount(2), mprotect(2), mpx, mremap(2), msync(2), munlock(2), munlockall(2), munmap(2), nanosleep(2), nfsservctl(2), nice(2), oldfstat, oldlstat, oldolduname, oldstat, oldumount, olduname, open(2), pause(2), personality(2), phys, pipe(2), pivot_root(2), poll(2), prctl(2), pread(2), prof, profil, ptrace(2), putpmsg, pwrite(2), query_module(2), quotactl(2), read(2), readahead, readdir(2), readlink(2), readv(2), reboot(2), recv(2), recvfrom(2), recvmsg(2), rename(2), rmdir(2), rt_sigaction, rt_sigpending, rt_sigprocmask, rt_sigqueueinfo, rt_sigreturn, rt_sigsuspend, rt_sigtimedwait, sched_get_priority_max(2), sched_get_priority_min(2), sched_getparam(2), sched_getscheduler(2), sched_rr_get_interval(2), sched_setparam(2), sched_setscheduler(2), sched_yield(2), security, select(2), sendfile(2), send(2), sendmsg(2), sendto(2), setdomainname(2), setfsgid(2), setfsgid32, setfsuid(2), setfsuid32, setgid(2), setgid32, setgroups(2), setgroups32, sethostname(2), setitimer(2), setpgid(2), setpriority(2), setregid(2), setregid32, setresgid(2), setresgid32, setresuid(2), setresuid32, setreuid(2), setreuid32, setrlimit(2), setsid(2), setsockopt(2), settimeofday(2), setuid(2), setuid32, setup(2), sgetmask(2), shutdown(2), sigaction(2), sigaltstack(2), signal(2), sigpending(2), sigprocmask(2), sigreturn(2), sigsuspend(2), socket(2), socketcall(2), socketpair(2), ssetmask(2), stat(2), stat64, statfs(2), stime(2), stty, swapoff(2), swapon(2), symlink(2), sync(2), sysfs(2), sysinfo(2), syslog(2), time(2), times(2), truncate(2), truncate64, ulimit, umask(2), umount(2), uname(2), unlink(2), uselib(2), ustat(2), utime(2), vfork(2), vhangup(2), vm86(2), vm86old, wait4(2), waitpid(2), write(2), writev(2).
Of the above, 9 are obsolete, namely getrlimit, oldfstat, oldlstat, oldolduname, oldstat, olduname, readdir, select and vm86old (see also obsolete(2)), and 15 are unimplemented in the standard kernel, namely afs_syscall, break, ftime, getpmsg, gtty, idle, lock, mpx, phys, prof, profil, putpmsg, security, stty and ulimit (see also unimplemented(2)). However, ftime(3), profil(3) and ulimit(3) exist as library routines. The slot for phys is in use since 2.1.116 for umount; phys will never be implemented. The getpmsg and putpmsg calls are for kernels patched to support streams, and may never be in the standard kernel. The security call is for future use.
Roughly speaking, the code belonging to the system call
with number __NR_xxx defined in /usr/include/asm/unistd.h
can be found in
the kernel source in the routine sys_xxx
(). (The dispatch
table for i386 can be found in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
.)
There are many exceptions, however, mostly because older
system calls were superseded by newer ones, and this has been
treated somewhat unsystematically. On platforms with
proprietary OS emulation, such as parisc, sparc, sparc64 and
alpha, there are many additional system calls; mips64 also
contains a full set of 32-bit system calls. Below the details
for Linux 2.4.17.
The defines __NR_oldstat and __NR_stat refer to the
routines sys_stat() and sys_newstat(), and similarly for
fstat
and lstat
. Similarly, the defines
__NR_oldolduname, __NR_olduname and __NR_uname refer to the
routines sys_olduname(), sys_uname() and sys_newuname().
Thus, __NR_stat and __NR_uname have always referred to the
latest version of the system call, and the older ones are for
backward compatibility.
It is different with select
and mmap
. These use five or
more parameters, and caused problems the way parameter
passing on the i386 used to be set up. Thus, while other
architectures have sys_select() and sys_mmap() corresponding
to __NR_select and __NR_mmap, on i386 one finds old_select()
and old_mmap() (routines that use a pointer to a parameter
block) instead. These days passing five parameters is not a
problem any more, and there is a __NR__newselect (used by
libc 6) that corresponds directly to sys_select() and
similarly __NR_mmap2.
Two other system call numbers, __NR__llseek and __NR__sysctl have an additional underscore absent in sys_llseek() and sys_sysctl().
Then there is __NR_readdir corresponding to old_readdir(), which will read at most one directory entry at a time, and is superseded by sys_getdents().
On many platforms, including i386, socket calls are all multiplexed through socketcall() and System V IPC calls through ipc().
On newer platforms that only have 64-bit file access and 32-bit uids (e.g., alpha, ia64, s390x) there are no *64 or *32 calls. Where the *64 and *32 calls exist, the other versions are obsolete.
The chown and lchown system calls were swapped in 2.1.81. The *64 and *32 calls were added for kernel 2.4, as were the new versions of getrlimit and mmap, and the new calls pivot_root, mincore, madvise, security, gettid and readahead.
Copyright (C) 1998 Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) Modifications for 2.2 and 2.4 Copyright (C) 2002 Ian Redfern <redferni@logica.com> Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working professionally. Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. |