On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:16 pm, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: > > > Thank you for advise. But I wonder: what is wrong with syscall > > > approach (via SYSCALL_MODULE macro)? > > > > I just haven't done one personally. I think there's also a lot more > > potenti al > > for collisions when trying to pick a syscall number versus picking a > > string name for a sysctl or /dev entry. > > Shouldn't that be no problem if he sets the offset parameter to > SYSCALL_MODULE to NO_SYSCALL (get the next free offset)?
But then you have to communicate the syscall number out to your userland applications somehow, and the applications have to know how to invoke a syscall by hand (perhaps they could use the syscall() function, but still). -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
