Re: export of sys_call_table

Michal Jaegermann (michal@harddata.com)
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:10:13 -0600


On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:02:40PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 22:39, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
>
> > Until now, loadable modules have been able to just overwrite
...
>
> Not actually safely implementable. The right way to do this is a
> relevant 2.5 question. In general however you shouldnt need to register
> syscalls because the upper layer interfaces already exist (the LiS stuff
> is an example otherwise I grant).

Hm, IIRC bproc stuff (Beowulf support) also relies on this ability.
Or at least "kmonte" trick to load and switch to a new kernel.

Michal
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