problem with syscall macro

[sounak chakraborty]

  i am writing a program which willcopy all the lines
from system log file /var/log/messages and put it in a
user log file 
i am using syslog with syscall3 but when i am using
write system cal it is not able to write anything 
do i have to add something more 
i have added the syscall3 macro for write too
do i have to do it for open system call also
i am little bit confuse with the kernel-user mode
switching concept too
could you please help me out
thans
sounak



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