trap-gate, Trap-gate, TRAP-gate!
Ugh.
BSD does what Linux does, and has for a while.
To the other guy:
Mapping system call pages into a user space program for a speedup
is the same speed as using a task-gate. In both cases you either
select a TSS decriptor from the GDT or a task-gate descriptor from
either the GDT or LDT.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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