Hi all,
This is my first post but I have been coming to the site for a long time now.

I have a question regarding creating my own system calls in Ubuntu(version 2.6.35).
I have created my system calls and they work perfectly with the exception that when I check the return value for known bad input in my driver file (how I am calling and testing my system calls) I always receive a negative one. I know my system calls are working because when I use the dmesg command I can see what the system calls are returning right before they return.
When I give valid input my return values match with those in my driver file, what I expect, and the values returned from dmesg. Does anyone have any idea what the reason for this is?

Thanks,
-Jeff

sample output:

Output from dmesg:
[ 2030.296446] rmMbox421:
[ 2030.296447] Mailbox ID: 9
[ 2030.296457] Mailbox 9 could not be removed (DNE).
[ 2030.296461] **Remove Mailbox returned -3


Output from proj2Driver.c:
0) Hello World
1) Create Mailbox
2) Remove Mailbox
3) Count Mailbox
4) List Mailbox
5) Send Message
10) Quit

Enter Option: 2

Enter Mailbox ID: 9
Result from rmMbox421: -1

To me, the question isn't clear enough.
What do you expect as a result when you give a bad input?
What is the system call supposed to do?
Can you post some source code of the system call here for
others to look?

Hey, Thanks for the response. I have figured out my problem, whenever my system call returned it was always negative one indicated there was an error. My solution was saved the errno value and if the return value was negative one I then checked the errno to see what specific error had occurred. Thanks a bunch,
-Jeff