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System call. What is it?
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A system call is just an userspace request of a kernel service. Yes, the operating system kernel provides many services. When your program wants to write/read to/from a file, start to listen for connections on a [socket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_socket), delete or create directory, or even to finish its work, a program uses a system call. In another words, a system call is just a [C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29) function that is placed in the kernel space and an user program can ask kernel to do something via this function.
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A system call is just an userspace request of a kernel service. Yes, the operating system kernel provides many services. When your program wants to write to or read from a file, start to listen for connections on a [socket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_socket), delete or create directory, or even to finish its work, a program uses a system call. In another words, a system call is just a [C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29) function that is placed in the kernel space and an user program can ask kernel to do something via this function.
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The Linux kernel provides a set of these functions and each architecture provides its own set. For example: the [x86_64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64) provides [322](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl) system calls and the [x86](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86) provides [358](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl) different system calls. Ok, a system call is just a function. Let's look on a simple `Hello wrold` example that written in assembly programming language:
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The Linux kernel provides a set of these functions and each architecture provides its own set. For example: the [x86_64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64) provides [322](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl) system calls and the [x86](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86) provides [358](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl) different system calls. Ok, a system call is just a function. Let's look on a simple `Hello world` example that written in assembly programming language:
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