Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "syscall" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "syscall" over time.
In computing, a system call (syscall) is the programmatic way in which a computer program requests a service from the operating system on which it is executed. This may include hardware-related services, creation and execution of new processes, and communication with integral kernel services such as process scheduling. System calls provide an essential interface between a process and the operating system. Read more on Wikipedia