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Asked: June 17, 20262026-06-17T08:22:56+00:00 2026-06-17T08:22:56+00:00

I am trying to understand the way system-calls are invoked on a Linux machine.

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I am trying to understand the way system-calls are invoked on a Linux machine. For this, I ran a guest machine with a Linux 3.0.43 kernel on the QEMU emulator.

In order to know the system call numbers, I instrumented the interrupt function in qemu (do_interrupt_all() in target-i386/seg_helper.c — not very important). Basically whenever I get an int 0x80 interrupt, I print the value in the EAX register. The output of the run gave the system call numbers. I expected the exec system call for the init process first. Then a fork and some `brk system calls. However, I am not sure if that is what I got. I am printing the first 100 system call numbers here. My guest is a 64-bit machine. Here is an online code exploration for my kernel.

 : 11
 : 45
 : 33
 : 192
 : 33
 : 5
 : 197
 : 192
 : 6
 : 33
 : 5
 : 3
 : 197
 : 192
 : 192
 : 192
 : 6
 : 192
 : 243
 : 125
 : 125
 : 125
 : 91
 : 122
 : 45
 : 45
 : 197
 : 5
 : 5
 : 5
 : 5
 : 221
 : 141
 : 141
 : 6
 : 5
 : 5
 : 5
 : 5
 : 5
 : 197
 : 192
 : 3
 : 3
 : 6
 : 91
 : 5
 : 197
 : 192
 : 3
 : 3
 : 6
 : 91
 : 5
 : 197
 : 192
 : 3
 : 3
 : 6
 : 91
 : 5
 : 197
 : 192
 : 3
 : 3
 : 6
 : 91
 : 5
 : 197
 : 192
 : 3
 : 3
 : 6
 : 91
 : 5
 : 197
 : 192
 : 3
 : 3
 : 6
 : 91
 : 5
 : 5
 : 197
 : 192
 : 3
 : 3
 : 6
 : 91
 : 5
 : 197
 : 192
 : 3
 : 3
 : 6
 : 91
 : 5
 : 197
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    2026-06-17T08:22:57+00:00Added an answer on June 17, 2026 at 8:22 am

    Yes, it’s what you got (Linux System Call Numbers, 64-bit Linux System Call Numbers):

    • 11 : sys_exevce, or exec‘s system call
    • 45 : sys_brk, the thing under malloc
    • 33 : sys_access
    • 192 : lgetxattr

    And so on.

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