Linux kernel interfaces

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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:

1. the "kernel–user space" API; and
2. the "kernel internal" API.