On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 13:46 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > > int is a call to either an interrupt or exception procedure. 0x80 is > > setup in Linux to be a trap and not an interrupt vector. So it does > > _not_ turn off interrupts. > > It's actually a vector, that's all you can install in the IDT. It's a vector + metadata, most noticably a privilege level and a descriptor type. http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigops/roll_your_own/i386/idt.html -- Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say: 47. Say, What does "Superblock Error" mean, anyhow? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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