18269e767SBrooks Davis.\" $NetBSD: sysarch.2,v 1.6 1998/02/25 21:24:57 perry Exp $ 28269e767SBrooks Davis.\" 38269e767SBrooks Davis.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. 48269e767SBrooks Davis.\" All rights reserved. 58269e767SBrooks Davis.\" 68269e767SBrooks Davis.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 78269e767SBrooks Davis.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 88269e767SBrooks Davis.\" are met: 98269e767SBrooks Davis.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 108269e767SBrooks Davis.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 118269e767SBrooks Davis.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 128269e767SBrooks Davis.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 138269e767SBrooks Davis.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 148269e767SBrooks Davis.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 158269e767SBrooks Davis.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 168269e767SBrooks Davis.\" without specific prior written permission. 178269e767SBrooks Davis.\" 188269e767SBrooks Davis.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 198269e767SBrooks Davis.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 208269e767SBrooks Davis.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 218269e767SBrooks Davis.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 228269e767SBrooks Davis.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 238269e767SBrooks Davis.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 248269e767SBrooks Davis.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 258269e767SBrooks Davis.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 268269e767SBrooks Davis.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 278269e767SBrooks Davis.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 288269e767SBrooks Davis.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 298269e767SBrooks Davis.\" 308269e767SBrooks Davis.Dd October 11, 1993 318269e767SBrooks Davis.Dt SYSARCH 2 328269e767SBrooks Davis.Os 338269e767SBrooks Davis.Sh NAME 348269e767SBrooks Davis.Nm sysarch 358269e767SBrooks Davis.Nd architecture-dependent system call 368269e767SBrooks Davis.Sh LIBRARY 378269e767SBrooks Davis.Lb libc 388269e767SBrooks Davis.Sh SYNOPSIS 398269e767SBrooks Davis.In machine/sysarch.h 408269e767SBrooks Davis.Ft int 418269e767SBrooks Davis.Fn sysarch "int number" "void *args" 428269e767SBrooks Davis.Sh DESCRIPTION 438269e767SBrooks DavisThe 448269e767SBrooks Davis.Fn sysarch 458269e767SBrooks Davissystem call 468269e767SBrooks Davisperforms the architecture-dependent function 478269e767SBrooks Davisspecified by 488269e767SBrooks Davis.Fa number 498269e767SBrooks Daviswith the arguments specified by the 508269e767SBrooks Davis.Fa args 518269e767SBrooks Davispointer. 528269e767SBrooks DavisThe 538269e767SBrooks Davis.Fa args 548269e767SBrooks Davisargument 558269e767SBrooks Davisis a pointer to a structure defining the actual 568269e767SBrooks Davisarguments of the function. 578269e767SBrooks DavisSymbolic constants and argument structures 588269e767SBrooks Davisfor the architecture-dependent 598269e767SBrooks Davisfunctions can be found in the header file 608269e767SBrooks Davis.In machine/sysarch.h . 618269e767SBrooks Davis.Pp 628269e767SBrooks DavisThe 638269e767SBrooks Davis.Fn sysarch 648269e767SBrooks Davissystem call should never be called directly by 658269e767SBrooks Davisuser programs. 668269e767SBrooks DavisInstead, they should access 678269e767SBrooks Davisits functions using the architecture-dependent 688269e767SBrooks Davislibrary. 698269e767SBrooks Davis.Sh RETURN VALUES 708269e767SBrooks DavisSee the manual pages for specific architecture-dependent system calls 718269e767SBrooks Davisfor information about their return values. 728269e767SBrooks Davis.Sh SEE ALSO 738269e767SBrooks Davis.Xr i386_get_ioperm 2 , 748269e767SBrooks Davis.Xr i386_get_ldt 2 , 758269e767SBrooks Davis.Xr i386_vm86 2 768269e767SBrooks Davis.Sh HISTORY 778269e767SBrooks DavisThis manual page was taken from 788269e767SBrooks Davis.Nx . 79