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@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@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Hi,

 

Here's an exhaustive list 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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