From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: varkab@cdac.in (Varka Bhadram) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 13:43:23 +0530 (IST) Subject: get_user() and put_user() missing in syscall list In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1994577982.6761.1401696804037.JavaMail.open-xchange@webmail.cdac.in> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org These two are not the system calls. they are the Kernel API's to transfer the data from user address space to the kernel address space. please see: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h#L239 http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h#L143 Regards, Varka Bhadram On June 2, 2014 at 11:29 AM Dipanjan Das wrote: > > Hi, > > Here's an exhaustive list > of Linux syscall, but I > can't find get_user() and put_user() API. Why is it so? What am I missing? > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ C-DAC is on Social-Media too. Kindly follow us at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CDACINDIA & Twitter: @cdacindia ] This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies and the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited and appropriate legal action will be taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20140602/9bebffe2/attachment.html