Historical use of "traps"

[Matthew Dillon]

:Thanks for the feedback.  Reading a bit more from chapter 3 of "Design 
:and Implementation of 4.4BSD", I'm fairly sure "trap" means something 
:along the lines of "trapping the kernel to force it to do something."  I 
:guess interrupt vectors and what-not are setup to handle these 
:situations?  I know interrupts are actually separate from a trap, but is 
:a similar convention used to know which code to execute during a 
:hardware trap that is now transferring over to the kernel?
:
:Thanks.

    On most cpu architectures traps, exceptions, and interrupts all 
    use a very similar mechanism to get into the kernel.  There is
    usually a vector table of some sort that all three use.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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