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SubjectRe: Fwd: Re: How to write System calls?
"Rajat Chadda" <rajat.chadda@wipro.com> wrote:

> Yes -- system calls can be implemented
> as modules.
> prog8.c is a module.
> prog9.c is a user-space program.
>
> In <asm/unistd.h> -- add
> #define __NR_my_func 250

thanks but my question was rather:
"in which case should we implement a new syscalls rather than a device
and a ioctl ?"

ie : what is better ? a new device and ioctl or new syscalls ?

and in which case, we should use one rather than the other ?

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