SYSARCH(2)

sysarch(2) — architecture-dependent system call ✨

bestie, welcome to the SYSARCH(2) manual page — it's giving “low-level architecture magic, handle with care” 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

sysarch — architecture-dependent system call

🎀 LIBRARY 🎀

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <machine/sysarch.h>

int
sysarch(int number, void *args);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so sysarch() does the architecture-dependent function you picked with number, using the arguments that args points at. literally: args is a pointer to a structure that defines the actual arguments of the function. the symbolic constants and argument structures for these architecture-dependent functions live in the header file <machine/sysarch.h>, iykyk.

bestie, sysarch() should never be called directly by user programs. no cap. instead, they should access its functions using the architecture-dependent library. that's the whole vibe 💖

🔥 RETURN VALUES 🔥

see the manual pages for the specific architecture-dependent system calls for info about their return values 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• i386_get_ioperm(2)
• i386_get_ldt(2)
• i386_vm86(2)

💜 HISTORY 💜

this manual page was taken from NetBSD 🫶

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and that's the page, bestie — Debian, October 11, 1993, iconic behavior, periodt 💅✨