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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How to test a syscall prior to compiling the kernel
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 20:52:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140604035223.GA28272@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEK-7JLTa6ZW0jJ3Zu7YekX43Onu0jbiYyxgBK+0QS-eGwChbA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 08:52:31AM +0530, Dipanjan Das wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> While adding a syscall, how do I test the syscall code itself? If I simply try
> to compile the C file individually, will the compiler be able find the
> includes?

Did you try:
	man 2 syscall

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-04  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-04  3:22 How to test a syscall prior to compiling the kernel Dipanjan Das
2014-06-04  3:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-06-04  3:59   ` Dipanjan Das
2014-06-04  4:14     ` Augusto Mecking Caringi
2014-06-04  4:19     ` Greg KH
     [not found]       ` <CAOUBrm3BQyVJys4++o6zPUVxp7+dDSvPiF9MFpOUzSLpyzhN7g@mail.gmail.com>
2014-06-04  8:24         ` navid Rahimi
2014-06-04 15:51       ` Andev
2014-06-04 17:56         ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-06-04 18:33           ` Andev
2014-06-04 18:42             ` Greg KH
2014-06-04 19:02             ` Andev
2014-06-04 22:14               ` Greg KH

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