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>Hi,
>
>I don't remember how to extract the syscall list from the kernel. There
>was an article some time ago about this, and checking the syscall addres=
s
>to make sure it was not changed in the kernel. Could anyone point me to
>this article? I've tried to google around but didn't find it.
>
>Best Regards

In order to mantain ABI compatibility, for every kernel process (sys/proc=
.h:struct
proc *) is provided a struct sysentvec pointer that contains information
about syscall table to be handled. Normally (when FreeBSD interface is to=

be used) it points to sysent array of struct sysent entries. These struct=
ures
rappresent associations between number of params for every syscall and sy=
scall
address (the discussion could be deeper but i guess you need just that),
so you can do a little check at them to get what you want.

bye,
rookie

reference:
sys/sysent.h