Linux kernel interfaces
An overview and comparison of the Linux kernel API and ABI. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Linux kernel provides multiple interfaces to user-space and kernel-mode code that are used for varying purposes and that have varying properties by design. There are two types of application programming interface (API) in the Linux kernel:
- the "kernel–user space" API; and
- the "kernel internal" API.
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