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Obsolete system calls

Usage

Obsolete system calls.

Overview

The Linux 2.0 kernel implements these calls to support old executables. These calls return structures which have grown since their first implementation, but old executables must continue to receive old smaller structures.

Current executables should be linked with current libraries and never use these calls.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 1.1–1.2
  2. 1.3–2.1
  3. 2.2
  4. 3.0–4.0

Conforming to

These calls are unique to Linux and should not be used at all in new programs.

From manpages-dev 2.39-1 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.