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Linux system calls never change. What, never? Hardly ever. One of the fundamental principles of Linux kernel development is that user-space interfaces are set in stone. Once an API has been made ...

This works by translating Windows system calls into Linux calls. Ah, you know about Windows compatibility layers, but you can’t get past the fact that CrossOver doesn’t work with everything?

A vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object) is an alternative to the somewhat cycle-expensive system call interface that the GNU/Linux kernel provides. But, before I explain how to cook up your own vDSO, ...

Microsoft has ported the popular Sysinternals Procmon utility to Linux so that users can monitor running processes' activity. Procmon is a Windows utility that monitors the system calls, Registry ...

David Howells put in quite a bit of work on a script, ./scripts/syscall-manage.pl, to simplify the entire process of changing the system call tables. With this script, it was a simple matter to add, ...