Re: Syscall from Kernel Space

[Jeff Garzik]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:04:37PM +0530, Prasad wrote:
> 	Is there a way using which i could invoke a syscall in the kernel 
> space?  The syscall is to be run disguised as another process.  The actual 

Call sys_<syscall>.  Look at the kernel code for examples.

Note that typically you don't want to do this... and you _really_ don't
want to do this if the syscall is not one of the common file I/O
syscalls (read/write/open/close, etc.)

	Jeff