#include <sys/syscall.h>
int syscall(number[ , arg, ... ] ) int number;
syscall() performs the system call whose assembly language interface has the specified number, and arguments arg .... Symbolic constants for system calls can be found in the header file <sys/syscall.h>.
syscall() returns the return value of the system call specified by number.
Since many system calls are implemented as library wrappers around traps to the kernel, these calls may not behave as documented when called from syscall(), which bypasses these wrappers. For these reasons, using syscall() is not recommended.
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