1.\" $OpenBSD: sysarch.2,v 1.11 2015/09/10 17:55:21 schwarze Exp $ 2.\" $NetBSD: sysarch.2,v 1.4 1995/02/27 12:38:47 cgd Exp $ 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. 5.\" All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 16.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17.\" without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" from: @(#)syscall.2 6.3 (Berkeley) 3/10/91 32.\" 33.Dd $Mdocdate: September 10 2015 $ 34.Dt SYSARCH 2 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm sysarch 38.Nd architecture-dependent system call 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.In machine/sysarch.h 41.Ft int 42.Fn sysarch "int number" "void *args" 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44.Fn sysarch 45performs the architecture-dependent function specified by 46.Fa number 47with the arguments specified by the 48.Fa args 49pointer. 50.Fa args 51is a pointer to a structure defining the actual arguments of the function. 52Symbolic constants and argument structures for the architecture-dependent 53functions can be found in the header file 54.In machine/sysarch.h . 55.Pp 56The 57.Fn sysarch 58system call should never be called directly by user programs. 59Instead, they should access its functions using the architecture-dependent 60library. 61.Sh RETURN VALUES 62See the manual pages for specific architecture-dependent function calls 63for information about their return values. 64.Sh HISTORY 65The 66.Fn sysarch 67function call appeared in 68.Nx 0.9a . 69