读libevent源代码-为何要使用syscall

  不明白libevent库中为什么使用syscall来调用C库中已提供支持的库函数。

-syscall在man中的描述：

syscall()is a small library function that invokes the system call whose assembly language interface has the specified number with the specified arguments. Employing syscall() is useful, for example, when invoking a system call that has no wrapper function in the C library.

syscall() saves CPU registers before making the system call, restores the registers upon return from the system call, and stores any error code returned by the system call in errno(3) if an error occurs.

Symbolic constants for system call numbers can be found in the header file <sys/syscall.h>.

-libevent库的源代码片段：

int
epoll_create(int size)
{
	return (syscall(__NR_epoll_create, size));
}

int
epoll_ctl(int epfd, int op, int fd, struct epoll_event *event)
{

	return (syscall(__NR_epoll_ctl, epfd, op, fd, event));
}

int
epoll_wait(int epfd, struct epoll_event *events, int maxevents, int timeout)
{
	return (syscall(__NR_epoll_wait, epfd, events, maxevents, timeout));
}