kldload — load KLD files into the kernel

The kldload() system call loads a kld file into the kernel using the kernel linker.

The named file is loaded unless: [EPERM] You do not have access to read the file or link it with the kernel. You should be the root user to be able to use the kld system calls. [EFAULT] Bad address encountered when adding kld info into the kernel space. [ENOMEM] There is no memory to load the file into the kernel. [ENOENT] The file was not found. [ENOEXEC] The file format of file was unrecognized. [EEXIST] The supplied file has already been loaded.

The kld interface first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0. Debian March 3, 1999 KLDLOAD(2)

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

kldload — load KLD files into the kernel

The kldload() system call returns the fileid of the kld file which was loaded into the kernel. If an error occurs, kldload() will return -1 and set errno to indicate the error.

kldfind(2), kldfirstmod(2), kldnext(2), kldstat(2), kldsym(2), kldunload(2), modfind(2), modfnext(2), modnext(2), modstat(2), kld(4), kldload(8)

#include<sys/param.h>#include<sys/linker.h>intkldload(constchar*file);