get_user() and put_user() missing in syscall list

[Dipanjan Das]

I am new to Linux kernel stuffs. How are Kernel API and syscalls differ
from each other?


On 2 June 2014 13:43, Varka Bhadram <varkab at cdac.in> wrote:

>   These two are not the system calls. they are the Kernel API's to
> transfer the data from user address space to the kernel address space.
>
>  please see:
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h#L239
>  http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h#L143
>
>  Regards,
>  Varka Bhadram
>
> *MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from
> "lxr.free-electrons.com" claiming to be* On June 2, 2014 at 11:29 AM
> Dipanjan Das <mail.dipanjan.das at gmail.com> wrote:
> <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h#L239>
>
>
>  Hi,
>
>  Here's an exhaustive list
> <http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscalls.2.html> of Linux syscall,
> but I can't find get_user() and put_user() API. Why is it so? What am I
> missing?
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