adding syscalls on linux

DINH Viet Hoa (Viet-Hoa.Dinh@irisa.fr)
Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:14:51 +0100

When we want to give a the user mode access to a kernel function,
we have to write a syscall.

But in which case should we :
- add a syscall in the sys_call_table
- or add a device and add a fcntl identifier and handle this ?

thanks.

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