Software Development with Go: Cloud-Native Programming using Golang with Linux and Docker

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N. TolaramSoftware Development with Gohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8731-6_1

1. System Calls

Nanik Tolaram¹  

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Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

Linux provides a lot of features and provides applications access to everything that the operating system has access to. When discussing system calls, most people will turn their attention to using C because it is the most common language to use when interfacing with the operating system.

In this chapter, you will explore what system calls are and how you can program in Go to make system calls. By the end of this chapter, you will have learned the following:

• What a system call looks like in C

• Understanding the sys/unix