Invoking a system using syscall()

[Pranay Srivastava]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Dipanjan Das
<mail.dipanjan.das at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to invoke getpid() system call using syscall. Here's the code snippet
> below. But, I can't find anything in dmesg|tail output.

What are you trying to see there? Why should any output come over there?

Do you need to use strace instead?

>
> #include <sys/types.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>        pid_tret = syscall(20);
>        return 0;
> }
>
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