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From: wjw@digi.digiware.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
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Subject: Re: Getting a new syscall to work
In-Reply-To: <199808170559.WAA20804@usr09.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Aug 17, 98 05:59:32 am"
To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:13:31 +0200 (CEST)
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=>  > I've followed most all of the receipe which was given by Eric A. Davis
=>  > to add a systemcall. But now I'm all out of idea's:
=>  > 
=>  > /usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "___nsysctl" called from testnsysctl:/usr/lib/libc.so.3.2 at 0x200857d8
=>  > (I bumped the minor number.)
=>  > 
=>  > I've looked in the running kernel with nm:
=>  > f0124c4c T ___nsysctl
=>  > f01241a0 F nsysctl.o
=>  > 
=>  > So as far I know, things should be working.
=>  > But they don't, so can somebody give me a new pointer
=>  
=>  You must put it in the libc as well as in the kernel.
=>  
=>  If you know the number, a good developement stopgap would be to call
=>  syscall(2) with the number as the first argument, the calls first
=>  argument as the second argument, etc..

Very good suggestion. I should have thought of it myself.
Proves that I have the call in the kernel, and that the pilot-error is
libc.

thanx,
--WjW

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