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Yes, system calls are ubiquitous. Each program needs to open/write/read files and network connections, allocate memory, and many other things that can be provided only by the kernel. The [proc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs) file system contains special files in a format: `/proc/pid/systemcall` that exposes the system call number and argument registers for the system call currently being executed by the process. For example, pid 1 is [systemd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd) for me:
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Yes, system calls are ubiquitous. Each program needs to open/write/read files and network connections, allocate memory, and many other things that can be provided only by the kernel. The [proc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs) file system contains special files in a format: `/proc/${pid}/syscall` that exposes the system call number and argument registers for the system call currently being executed by the process. For example, pid 1 is [systemd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd) for me:
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