adding a system call

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 22:18, mohit verma <mohit89mlnc at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all ,
>>
>> i followed the link and tried to add a system call in kernel-version
>> 2.6.37
>> here is the code :
>>
>>
>> #include<linux/linkage.h>
>> #include<linux/kernel.h>
>> #include<linux/fs.h>  //for getname
>> #include<linux/err.h> //for PTR_ERR
>> asmlinkage int sys_hariohm(const char __user *filename)
>> {
>>     char *tmp = getname(filename);
>>      int fd=PTR_ERR(tmp);
>>         if (!IS_ERR(tmp))
>>         {
>>         printk("filename %s \n",tmp);
>>         putname(tmp);
>>         return fd;
>>         }
>>         else
>>         {
>>         return 2;
>>         }
>> }

which syscall number did you assigned to this syscall? and exactly how
do you assign it?

NB: your code style doesn't follow the Linux kernel coding standart....

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