From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: eric@cisu.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Quick Syscall question
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:31:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040905113114.313efdf2.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409051317.42691.eric@cisu.net>
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:17:42 -0500 Eric Bambach wrote:
| Hello,
|
| This may seem like a silly question, however we were all beginning
| programmers once ;)
|
| I want to do some manipulating of network interfaces and routing and such. I
| am reading through some of the linux net sources but am confused on what are
| internal, kernel-only functions and what are externally visable syscalls. How
| can I tell from the source what is user-space visable that I can hook into
| and what is intternel stuff? Should I just be looking at headers or do I have
| to delve into the .c sources? I can do either, I just need a pointer on where
| to start and what I should be looking for.
Most syscalls are listed in include/linux/syscalls.h.
Also look in include/asm-*/unistd.h.
Also in entry.S in arch/*/ (various sub-directory levels).
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-05 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-05 18:17 Quick Syscall question Eric Bambach
2004-09-05 18:31 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-09-05 22:17 ` Neil Horman
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