1.\" $NetBSD: sysarch.2,v 1.11 2002/02/08 01:28:23 ross Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" from: @(#)syscall.2 6.3 (Berkeley) 3/10/91 35.\" 36.Dd October 11, 1993 37.Dt SYSARCH 2 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm sysarch 41.Nd architecture-dependent system call 42.Sh LIBRARY 43.Lb libc 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Fd #include \*[Lt]machine/sysarch.h\*[Gt] 46.Ft int 47.Fn sysarch "int number" "void *args" 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49.Fn sysarch 50performs the architecture-dependent function 51specified by 52.Fa number 53with the arguments specified by the 54.Fa args 55pointer. 56.Fa args 57is a pointer to a structure defining the actual 58arguments of the function. 59Symbolic constants and argument structures 60for the architecture-dependent 61functions can be found in the header file 62.Ao Pa machine/sysarch.h Ac . 63.Pp 64The 65.Fn sysarch 66system call should never be called directly by 67user programs. Instead, they should access 68its functions using the architecture-dependent 69library. 70.Sh RETURN VALUES 71See the manual pages for specific architecture-dependent function calls 72for information about their return values. 73.Sh HISTORY 74The 75.Fn sysarch 76function call appeared in 77.Nx 1.0 . 78