I am trying to create a new system call in Minix 3.3. At first i just want to create simple printmsg() call that will write "Hello World" on screen.
I looked various tutorials on internet and still couldn't find out solution.
I defined my sys call number in callnr.h like this #define PM_PRINTMSG (PM BASE + 48) and i increased number of sys calls #define NR_PM_CALLS 49.
In table.c I added CALL(PM_PRINTMSG) = doprintmsg.
In proto.h I described function prototype `int do_printmsg(void);
Function implementation is written in misc.c. I added #include <stdio.h> and made Hello World function int do printmsg(){ printf("I am a system call"); return 0; }
When I test my system call in user program _syscall(PM_PROC_NR, PM_PRINTMSG, &m); I don't get any errors but no printf is displayed.
So, is it possible to printf messages from system calls since i had to add <stdio.h> myself in misc.c or i missed some steps. I forgot to mention that i go in /usr/src/releasetools and type make services and make install respectively to recompile kernel.
I figured out what was the problem, so i will post answer if someone needs this in future. I did everything well in this example but i failed to compile kernel.
The location was correct which is usr/src/releasetools, but command needed is make hdboot. Also i figured out my PC somehow wasnt working well with this virtual machines and i had many errors while compiling even though i didn't change anything. When i switched to laptop everything worked fine.
My conclusion is sometimes there is just something wrong on your machine so you should try and test problems on different ones