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35 .Nd syscall kernel module declaration macro
40 .Fn SYSCALL_MODULE name "int *offset" "struct sysent new_sysent" "modeventhand_t evh" "void *arg"
44 macro declares a new syscall.
46 expands into a kernel module declaration named as
52 which saves the offset in
58 specifies the function implementing the syscall and the number of
59 arguments this function needs (see
63 is a pointer to the kernel module event handler function with the argument
69 A minimal example for a syscall module can be found in
70 .Pa /usr/share/examples/kld/syscall/module/syscall.c .
74 .Pa /usr/share/examples/kld/syscall/module/syscall.c
76 This manual page was written by
77 .An Alexander Langer Aq alex@FreeBSD.org .