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A System Call Is Triggered by Hardware

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As long as the IRQ line is. Executing a special program called system program D. Linux Performance Interrupts may be triggered by either hardware of software. . What is System Call. LEC1 A system call runs in kernel mode only. This may include hardware-related services creation and execution of new processes and communication with integral kernel services such as process scheduling. Raised by hardware or programs to get OS attention Types Hardware interrupts. What is the nervous system triggered to respond to. Software interrupt is triggered by software and considered one of the ways to communicate with kernel or to trigger system calls especially during error or exception handling. In other way user spaceless-privileged invokes system calls to request kernel spaceprivileged to do some task which the user space has no permission to do directly. Software interrupt is triggered by software program instructio...