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Definition of 'syscall'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(computing) A software request for a service from the operating system kernel.
* 2009 , Jatinder N. D. Gupta, Sushil K. Sharma, Handbook of research on information security and assurance
- At an assembly code level, when a process wants to make a syscall , it will load the syscall number into the EAX register
* 2010 , Michael Resch, Katharina Benkert, Xin Wang, High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2010 (page 57)
- In addition, the relatively slow scalar CPU of the SX-9 and high cost of context switches (interrupts, syscalls ) due to the huge context that needs to be stored away (like vector registers) contribute their part to the very poor UDP performance.
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