sysarch (2)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man2/sysarch.2freebsd".)

NAME

sysarch - architecture-dependent system call

LIBRARY

Lb libc

SYNOPSIS

In machine/sysarch.h Ft int Fn sysarch int number void *args

DESCRIPTION

The Fn sysarch system call performs the architecture-dependent function specified by Fa number with the arguments specified by the Fa args pointer. The Fa args argument is a pointer to a structure defining the actual arguments of the function. Symbolic constants and argument structures for the architecture-dependent functions can be found in the header file In machine/sysarch.h .

The Fn sysarch system call should never be called directly by user programs. Instead, they should access its functions using the architecture-dependent library.

RETURN VALUES

See the manual pages for specific architecture-dependent system calls for information about their return values.

SEE ALSO

i386_get_ioperm2, i386_get_ldt2, i386_vm862

HISTORY

This manual page was taken from Nx .