Index

System Calls

Example of Standard C Library

Types of System Calls:

1)Process control

2)File management

3)Device management

4)Information maintenance

5)Communications

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System Calls

 

  • Programming interface to the services provided by the OS
  • Typically written in a high-level language (C or C++)
  • Mostly accessed by programs via a high-level Application Program Interface (API)
  • Three most common APIs are
    1. Win32 API for Windows,
    2. POSIX API (all versions of UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X), and
    3. Java API for the Java virtual machine (JVM)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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