NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     sysarch - architecture-dependent system call

LIBRARY    [Toc]    [Back]

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <machine/sysarch.h>

     int
     sysarch(int number, void *args);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     sysarch() performs the architecture-dependent function specified by
     number with the arguments specified by the args pointer.  args is a
     pointer to a structure defining the actual arguments of the function.
     Symbolic constants and argument structures for the architecture-dependent
     functions can be found in the header file <machine/sysarch.h>.

     The sysarch() system call should never be called directly by user programs.
  Instead, they should access its functions using the architecturedependent
 library.

RETURN VALUES    [Toc]    [Back]

     See the manual pages for specific architecture-dependent function calls
     for information about their return values.

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The sysarch() function call appeared in NetBSD 1.0.

BSD                            October 11, 1993                            BSD