Re: regd. adding new system calls to the kernel

["Amit D Chaudhary" <amit@muppetlabs.com>]

Suggestion: read through Kernel Projects for Linux by Gary Nut. One of the
projects is adding a system call.
Or search for a system call, say "sys_waitpid" in the kernel sources.

Amit


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rajmohan" <rajmohan@miel.mot.com>
To: "'KernelNewbies Mailing List'" <kernelnewbies@humbolt.nl.linux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 8:46 PM
Subject: regd. adding new system calls to the kernel


> Hi all,
>
> Could anybody please let me know the procedures for adding a new system
call
> to the kernel. I went through the book "Linux Kernel Internals" by
> Harald Bohme, Mirko Dziadzka, Ulrich Kunitz and others. But the procedures
> explained in the book are for a very old kernal version i guess, and dont
> hold
> good for the recent kernel versions.
>
> I would appreciate u'r help. Perhaps a few pointers to the sites would
also
> help.
>
> regards,
> Rajmohan
>
>
>
>

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