Peter Kourzanov scripsit:

> Just do $man _syscall on Linux (imagine open i.s.o. sysinfo in the
> example there).

_Syscall is obsolete and deprecated.  Anyhow, the _syscallX macros
*generate* functions that make system calls, they don't substitute
for them.

It's possible for any Posix function to be implemented as a macro,
but it's not common outside a standard set like getc() and isascii().

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