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31.Dd January 7, 2005
32.Dt SYSCALL_MODULE 9
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm SYSCALL_MODULE
36.Nd syscall kernel module declaration macro
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In sys/param.h
39.In sys/kernel.h
40.In sys/proc.h
41.In sys/module.h
42.In sys/sysent.h
43.Fn SYSCALL_MODULE name "int *offset" "struct sysent new_sysent" "modeventhand_t evh" "void *arg"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Fn SYSCALL_MODULE
47macro declares a new syscall.
48.Fn SYSCALL_MODULE
49expands into a kernel module declaration named as
50.Fa name .
51.Pp
52The rest of the arguments expected by this macro are:
53.Bl -tag -width ".Fa new_sysent"
54.It Fa offset
55A pointer to an
56.Vt int
57which saves the offset in
58.Vt "struct sysent"
59where the syscall is allocated.
60.It Fa new_sysent
61The function implementing the syscall and the number of arguments this
62function needs (see
63.In sys/sysent.h ) .
64.It Fa evh
65A pointer to the kernel module event handler function with the argument
66.Fa arg .
67Please refer to
68.Xr module 9
69for more information.
70.It Fa arg
71The argument passed to the callback functions of the
72.Fa evh
73event handler when it is called.
74.El
75.Sh EXAMPLES
76A minimal example for a syscall module can be found in
77.Pa /usr/share/examples/kld/syscall/module/syscall.c .
78.Sh SEE ALSO
79.Xr module 9
80.Pp
81.Pa /usr/share/examples/kld/syscall/module/syscall.c
82.Sh AUTHORS
83This manual page was written by
84.An Alexander Langer Aq alex@FreeBSD.org .
85