NetBSD Problem Report #37387

From martin@duskware.de  Thu Nov 15 10:29:47 2007
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:19:42 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: kernel internals documentation omission
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>Number:         37387
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       kernel internals documentation omission
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 15 10:30:00 +0000 2007
>Last-Modified:  Thu Nov 15 10:55:01 +0000 2007
>Originator:     Kristaps Dzonsons
>Release:        n/a
>Organization:
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
The "netbsd internals" page (link below) has incomplete information on how to add a system call: it doesn't mention considerations if the new system call requires a new header file (say, adding int sys_bar(struct foo *)).  Please let me know if this is valuable, and I can provide the changes as a  patch to the documentation source.  --kk

http://www.netbsd.org/docs/internals/en/chap-processes.html#syscall_howto
>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
>Fix:
n/a

>Audit-Trail:
From: jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, misc-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/37387: kernel internals documentation omission
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:50:48 -0800

 On Mar 2, 10:37pm, kristaps@kth.se wrote:
 }
 } >Number:         37387
 } >Category:       misc
 } >Synopsis:       kernel internals documentation omission
 } >Responsible:    misc-bug-people
 } >State:          open
 } >Class:          doc-bug
 } >Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 15 10:30:00 +0000 2007
 } >Originator:     Kristaps Dzonsons
 } >Description:
 } The "netbsd internals" page (link below) has incomplete information
 } on how to add a system call: it doesn't mention considerations if the
 } new system call requires a new header file (say, adding int
 } sys_bar(struct foo *)).  Please let me know if this is valuable, and
 } I can provide the changes as a  patch to the documentation source.

      All documentation is valuable.  Having more complete documentation
 would definitely be appreciated.  Thanks for the offer!

 }-- End of excerpt from kristaps@kth.se

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