2.11BSD/src/man/man2/ucall.2

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.\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
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.\"	@(#)ucall.2	2.3 (Berkeley) 1/22/87
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.TH UCALL 2 "January 22, 1987"
.UC 2
.SH NAME
ucall \- call a kernel subroutine from user mode (2BSD)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
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#include <pdp/psl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

ucall(priority, function, arg0, arg1)
int priority, arg0, arg1;
caddr_t function;
.fi
.ft R
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Ucall
causes the processor priority to be set to
.I priority
and the specified kernel
.I function
to be called with arguments
.IR arg0 " and " arg1 .
.I Priority
is one of PSL_BR0, \&..., PSL_BR7.
Processor priority is reset to PSL_BR0 when
.I function
returns.
.PP
.I Ucall
is allowed only if the user is the superuser.
It is obviously extremely dangerous if misused.
It's only current use is
at system boot time to configure system devices by
calling device drivers \&...
.SH ERRORS
.TP 15
[EPERM]
The caller is not the super-user.
.SH SEE ALSO
autoconfig(8)
.SH BUGS
No address validations are attempted.
.PP
.I Ucall
is unique to the PDP-11 and 2BSD; its use is discouraged.