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system call

in computer science, the mechanism used by an application program to request service from the operating system or another application program
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system call

Summary

system call ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (265 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • system call's subclass of is recorded as subroutine call[2].
  • system call's subclass of is recorded as operating system component[3].
  • system call's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0p_3t[4].
  • system call's topic's main category is recorded as Category:System calls[5].
  • system call's facet of is recorded as operating system[6].
  • system call's facet of is recorded as application binary interface[7].
  • system call's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/system-calls[8].
  • system call's different from is recorded as command[9].
  • system call's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00075311n[10].
  • system call's NE.se ID is recorded as systemanrop[11].
  • system call's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778579508[12].
  • system call's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2778579508[13].
  • system call's FOLDOC ID is recorded as system+call[14].

Why It Matters

system call ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (265 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

operating system

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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