* Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 18:50 +0530, Gaurav Dhiman wrote:
> > yes, definetely a historical reason. System libraries need to know
> > this vector to invoke system call.
>
> nowadays it's also mostly unused; sysenter and friends are used
> instead and they don't use this entry point.
note that some system-calls are still invoked via int80 by glibc, such
as fork() - even on sysenter/syscall capable CPUs.
Ingo
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