Re: getting a return from a system call

["Irfan Habib" <irfan.habib@gmail.com>]

and what about long? I tried return type long, it also always returned
0, instead of the custom one I was returning

On 10/17/06, Jay Vaughan <jv@access-music.de> wrote:
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> You can't use floats in kernel system calls ..
>
> j.
>
> At 14:45 +0500 17/10/06, Irfan Habib wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm trying to build a system call which returns a float, and is defined as :
> >asmlinkage float sys_ph_pinfo(int pid, int mode)
> >
> >but in a user level program every time, I evaluate it, I always get
> >a return 0!
> >How do I capture the return of a system call?
> >
> >Also is it possible that a system call return a structure or array?
> >Will that be available in user space? My hunch is that this is not
> >possible, as kernel memory space is disjoint form the user memory
> >space, but just for information.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Irfan
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> Jay Vaughan
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