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System call. What is it?
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A system call is just a 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, starts to listen for connections on a [socket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_socket), delete or create a 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 a user program can ask the kernel to do something via this function.
A system call is just a 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.
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's written in the assembly programming language:
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$ sudo cat /proc/1/comm
systemd
$ sudo cat /proc/1/syscall
$ sudo cat /proc/1/syscall
232 0x4 0x7ffdf82e11b0 0x1f 0xffffffff 0x100 0x7ffdf82e11bf 0x7ffdf82e11a0 0x7f9114681193
```
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$ sudo cat /proc/2093/comm
emacs
$ sudo cat /proc/2093/syscall
$ sudo cat /proc/2093/syscall
270 0xf 0x7fff068a5a90 0x7fff068a5b10 0x0 0x7fff068a59c0 0x7fff068a59d0 0x7fff068a59b0 0x7f777dd8813c
```