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Hi,
if any one has the idea of the internal system calls which gets activated by using high level statements ( like printf ,scanf or malloc and so on) please provide me the links or any related info.
i have an idea that the internal system calls depends on the OS/Compiler.
but i want a comprehensive description of all or few poupular OS system calls/ high level statements.
if any one has the idea of the internal system calls which gets activated by using high level statements ( like printf ,scanf or malloc and so on) please provide me the links or any related info.
i have an idea that the internal system calls depends on the OS/Compiler.
but i want a comprehensive description of all or few poupular OS system calls/ high level statements.
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#2 Oct 21st, 2009
So you want us to Google for you
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I've used a debugger to step through some of the printf() code on MS-Windows and found that eventually it calls win32 api WriteFile(). From that experience I would imagine other functions also eventually call win32 api functions. But those are the details that are compiler-implementation specific. There is nothing in the c or c++ standards that tell compiler writers how to implement the standard functions; they are free to do it any way they want to.
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#4 Oct 22nd, 2009
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Originally Posted by gerard4143 
So you want us to Google for you
i googled for some time but dint find any use full rather related information about different OS system calls.
what i got was these below links but these are not having much related info.
<http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=system+calls+in+operating+system&meta=&aq=2&oq=system+calls+>
http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en...meta=&aq=f&oq=
http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en...meta=&aq=f&oq=
so i thought some one else would be having some other info.
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#5 Oct 22nd, 2009
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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon
I've used a debugger to step through some of the printf() code on MS-Windows and found that eventually it calls win32 api WriteFile(). From that experience I would imagine other functions also eventually call win32 api functions. But those are the details that are compiler-implementation specific. There is nothing in the c or c++ standards that tell compiler writers how to implement the standard functions; they are free to do it any way they want to.
Thanks for your response Dragon.
actually i work on linux OS and here i can find that read and write system calls are used as internal functions of scanf and printf.
( confused here on how the mapping is done between read ,write and scanf ,printf. because read/write takes file descriptors, buffers and size of data where as printf and scanf takes the variable lenght args: format strings and arguments)
similarly all the dma functions(malloc,calloc, realloc, memset,memcpy, memmove) also uses some built in system calls.
i just want to know is there any source that describes the library functions and whose corresponding system calls on different OS's.
i googled for some time but dint get any appropriate info.
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#6 Oct 22nd, 2009
If your looking for the source code for Linux system calls then download the kernel source code for your Linux distro and you'll find it there...The first file you want to investigate is - Entry.S - this file has all the code for the interrupt/syscall call that handles the dispatch....
Also this link may shed some light
http://asm.sourceforge.net/syscall.html#p3
Also this link may shed some light
http://asm.sourceforge.net/syscall.html#p3
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confused here on how the mapping is done between read ,write and scanf ,printf. because read/write takes file descriptors, buffers and size of data where as printf and scanf takes the variable lenght args: format strings and arguments
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#8 Oct 22nd, 2009
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Originally Posted by Gaiety
( confused here on how the mapping is done between read ,write and scanf ,printf. because read/write takes file descriptors, buffers and size of data where as printf and scanf takes the variable lenght args: format strings and arguments)
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Originally Posted by Gaiety
similarly all the dma functions(malloc,calloc, realloc, memset,memcpy, memmove) also uses some built in system calls.
i just want to know is there any source that describes the library functions and whose corresponding system calls on different OS's.
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Thank you All for your time
i will do some research on these according to your suggestions and get back to you soon
Thanks again.
i will do some research on these according to your suggestions and get back to you soon
Thanks again.
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#10 Oct 22nd, 2009
Hey man -- do a lot of research then write a book so that you can make millions of money
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