Re: Syscall from Kernel Space

[Prasad]

but what about masking the process.  An example is... I want to use the
mmap syscall. the kernel implementation uses current->mm, but what i want
to do is, the current macro or the get_current() function should give me
the task_struct of a process so that the effect of the syscall is seen on 
that process and not on the current kernel thread.

Prasad. 

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 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