In article <3740 at ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> kerchen at iris.ucdavis.edu (Paul Kerchen) writes: >Is the system call "syscall()" necessary? It's not a system call, just a library function. Of course it is not necessary in any logical sense. I don't even think it's particularly useful these days; the last time I saw it used was on a Sixth Edition UNIX system.