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SYSCALL_MODULE(9) Kernel Developer's Manual SYSCALL_MODULE(9)

NAME

SYSCALL_MODULEsyscall kernel module declaration macro

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/kernel.h>
#include <sys/proc.h>
#include <sys/module.h>
#include <sys/sysent.h>
SYSCALL_MODULE(name, int *offset, struct sysent *new_sysent, modeventhand_t evh, void *arg);

DESCRIPTION

The SYSCALL_MODULE() macro declares a new syscall. SYSCALL_MODULE() expands into a kernel module declaration named as name.
The rest of the arguments expected by this macro are:
offset
A pointer to an int which saves the offset in struct sysent where the syscall is allocated.
new_sysent
is a pointer to a structure that specifies the function implementing the syscall and the number of arguments this function needs (see <sys/sysent.h>).
evh
A pointer to the kernel module event handler function with the argument arg. Please refer to module(9) for more information.
arg
The argument passed to the callback functions of the evh event handler when it is called.

EXAMPLES

A minimal example for a syscall module can be found in /usr/share/examples/kld/syscall/module/syscall.c.

SEE ALSO

module(9)
/usr/share/examples/kld/syscall/module/syscall.c

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Alexander Langer ⟨alex@FreeBSD.org⟩.
January 7, 2005 Debian