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syscall

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Calls the system call specified as the first element of the list, passing the remaining elements as arguments to the system call. The function produces a fatal error if syscall(2) is unimplemented. The arguments are interpreted as follows: if a given argument is numeric, the argument is passed as a C integer. If not, a pointer to the string value is passed.


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