debian man page for sysarch

Query: sysarch

OS: debian

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SYSARCH(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual							SYSARCH(2)

NAME
sysarch -- architecture-dependent system call
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <machine/sysarch.h> int sysarch(int number, void *args);
DESCRIPTION
The sysarch() system call performs the architecture-dependent function specified by number with the arguments specified by the args pointer. The 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 <machine/sysarch.h>. The sysarch() system call should never be called directly by user programs. Instead, they should access its functions using the architec- ture-dependent library.
RETURN VALUES
See the manual pages for specific architecture-dependent system calls for information about their return values.
SEE ALSO
i386_get_ioperm(2), i386_get_ldt(2), i386_vm86(2)
HISTORY
This manual page was taken from NetBSD.
BSD
October 11, 1993 BSD
Related Man Pages
i386_get_ldt(2) - debian
i386_vm86(2) - debian
i386_set_ioperm(2) - freebsd
i386_set_ldt(2) - freebsd
i386_set_ioperm(2) - netbsd
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