Linux kernel interfaces: Difference between revisions

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* [[Semaphore (programming)]]

* [[system call]]{{snd}} is a function to facilitate programs to request services from the kernel

** <tt>{{mono|[[File descriptor|eventfd()]]</tt> }}

** [[netlink]]{{snd}} socket family used for IPC between kernel and user space processes, designed as the successor of <tt>{{mono|[[ioctl]]</tt>}}; Netlink was added by [[Alan Cox]] during Linux kernel 1.3 development as a character driver interface to provide multiple kernel and user-space bidirectional communications links. Then, Alexey Kuznetsov extended it during Linux kernel 2.1 development to provide a flexible and extensible messaging interface to the new advanced routing infrastructure. Since then, Netlink sockets have become one of the main interfaces that kernel subsystems provide to user-space applications in Linux. Modern [[Wireless network interface controller|WNIC]] [[Comparison of open-source wireless drivers|drivers]] use it to communicate with user-space.

* [[Windows API]]{{snd}} article on various API available on Microsoft Windows operating systems

** [[windows.h]]{{snd}} header file for the [[C (programming language)|C programming language]] which contains declarations for ''all'' of the functions in the Windows API