From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shriramana Sharma Subject: kernel provided system call is an API? Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:55:21 +0530 Message-ID: <472214F1.6030907@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Linux C Programming List Hello friends. 1. Can the system calls provided by the kernel be considered an API? 2. When an app using system calls is executed, would any code in the kernel be executed? Shriramana Sharma.