NAME

       sysarch — architecture-dependent system call

LIBRARY

       Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <machine/sysarch.h>

       int
       sysarch(int number, void *args);

DESCRIPTION

       The  sysarch()  system  call  performs  the  architecture-dependent function specified by number with the
       arguments specified by the args pointer.  The args argument 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 architecture-dependent library.

RETURN VALUES

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

SEE ALSO

       i386_get_ioperm(2), i386_get_ldt(2), i386_vm86(2)

HISTORY

       This manual page was taken from NetBSD.

Debian                                          October 11, 1993                                      SYSARCH(2)