<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Dipanjan Das <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail.dipanjan.das@gmail.com" target="_blank">mail.dipanjan.das@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>I am new to Linux kernel stuffs. How are Kernel API and syscalls differ from each other?</div></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>syscalls are system calls which which will be used by your application in user space. syscalls table will map the userspace syatem call with the related function in kernel space. </div><div>
kernel API are the functions which can only be used in kernel space and they do not have any existence in userspace.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Sudip</div></div></div></div>