> the 2 lines included in www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/programming.html 
> don't help too much.
> 
> i am trying to add a system call, (call it newsyscall() for example)
> 
> i've added sys_newsyscall to sys/kern/syscalls.master, ran `make 
> init_sysent.c`  i'va also added sys/net/newsys_syscalls.c to sys/conf/files
> 
> which function to i define?  newsyscall()  or sys_newsyscall()? (i assume 
> sys_newsyscall)

the latter.

> if i want my syscall to verify a uid/gid of the calling process, do i have to 
> do anything special to get the proc struct passed to the function?

no.

					- Bill