Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 6 authors, 2012-06-12

is memcpy a system call?

From: j.neuschaefer@gmx.net (Jonathan Neuschäfer)
Date: 2012-06-08 21:48:15

On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 12:11:36AM +0900, J.Hwan Kim wrote:
Hi, everyone

Is memcpy a system call?

Thanks in advnace,

Best Regards,
J.Hwna Kim
"strace" is a good tool to find out which system calls a program is
doing.

To answer your question, I don't think it makes much sense to implement
memcpy as a syscall, because entering kernel mode is usually relatively
expensive and I can't think of any kernel mode-only memcpy optimizations
(and optimizations are the only reason to do a user space memcpy in
kernel space I can think of).

HTH,
	Jonathan Neusch?fer
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