How system calls work in Linux

http://12000.org/my_notes/system_calls_in_linux/system_call_in_linux/index.htm

These are my notes I wrote while learning how system calls work on a Linux system. Started in may 29,2000.

To help show this, I show flow of a typical system call such as 'fopen()'. fopen() is a function call defined in the C standard library. I use glibc-2.1 as an implementation.

From the UNIX98 standard, fopen() is defined as