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Linux 1.0 Syscalls

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Introduction

The scope of the specifications is general enough to serve for specification document for designing Linux personalities for microkernels or for creating Linux compatible libraries. It contains the complete specifications of the interface. The description of each syscall contains a rough sketch (almost pseudo-code) of the code that needs written in order to implement the syscall correctly for Linux compatiblity.

This information is accurate as of version 1.0 of Linux.

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