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Re: Help Adding system call 2.6.19



On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:32:15AM +0530, Dang wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to add a new system call in linux kernel 2.6.19.
> Adding all the required kernel code is fine but compilation of user
> space code is giving some issues.
> 
> The _syscall0, _syscall1, .... interface that was available till
> 2.6.17 seems to have been discontinued. _syscall0... marcos are
> defined in asm-i386/unistd.h but inside kernel block.
> 
> Can anybody give me some pointers as to how system call are to be
> invoked 2.6.18 onwards?

This is what I use:

  /* stupid hack to get _syscall0() and _syscall3() macros */
  #define __KERNEL__
  #include <linux/unistd.h>
  #undef __KERNEL__

Not nice, but it works.


Erik

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