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39 .Nd architecture-dependent system call
45 .Fn sysarch "int number" "void *args"
48 performs the architecture-dependent function
51 with the arguments specified by the
55 is a pointer to a structure defining the actual
56 arguments of the function.
57 Symbolic constants and argument structures
58 for the architecture-dependent
59 functions can be found in the header file
60 .In machine/sysarch.h .
64 system call should never be called directly by
65 user programs. Instead, they should access
66 its functions using the architecture-dependent
69 See the manual pages for specific architecture-dependent function calls
70 for information about their return values.
72 .Xr i386_get_ioperm 2 ,
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