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system call wrapper

An ordinary library function, such as write in the C library, that sets up the registers and makes the system call for you.

A system call wrapper is a library function with a normal calling-convention interface that loads the system call number and arguments, executes the system call instruction and converts the result (on Linux, -errno) into the library's error convention.

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