On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:08:55PM -0400, Jug Venkatesh wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
>  I am writing new system calls for a security project

Um, you might want to stop right there :)

Are you _sure_ you need a new system call?

>  , and I was wondering if 
>  there is any way to specify whether they will be accessible from user space 
>  or kernel space. Basically, I am writing a monitor that writes to a buffer, 
>  and I would like to be able to use this both in the programs I write 
>  (running in user space) as well as in kernel space. I have successfully used 
>  this syscall in kernel space, but whenever I try to use it in a C program, I 
>  get a compile error that says "Undefined reference ...".

Just use the proper syscall macro from userspace.

good luck,

greg k-h

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