Re: do_brk() trace mystery

[Chris Friesen]

sting sting wrote:

> But I did a search on the kernel tree fo do_brk()
> and I found only 5 entries (in 2.6 kernel and also in 2.4.24).
> One of the was the declaration in mm.h; the other was
> implementation in mmap.c

You probably want sys_brk().

> So the mystery is : who calls the brk() system call when I type
> "cat /proc/interrupts"

cat calls malloc(), glibc calls brk(), kernel does sys_brk()

Chris

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