Re: Nice values for kernel modules

[Alan Cox]

> Ability to bypass the stupid commercial time-locked licences (at some time
> wordperfect demo was locked like that and my timetravel module turned a
> demo into full product -- users were happy, at least according to emails I
> received :)

Not any more. Under the DMCA your time travel module probably makes you
a fugtive from US justice 8)

In general though calling into the syscall table by hand is a bad move. If
the function you are calling is generically useful then its much better to
work out whether the real function should be exported.