Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:35:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:35:01 -0400 Received: from gw.openss7.com ([142.179.199.224]:3082 "EHLO gw.openss7.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:34:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:39:43 -0600 From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" To: kernel Subject: export of sys_call_table Message-ID: <20021003153943.E22418@openss7.org> Reply-To: bidulock@openss7.org Mail-Followup-To: kernel Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Organization: http://www.openss7.org/ Dsn-Notification-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1163 Lines: 27 I see that RH, in their infinite wisdom, have seen fit to remove the export of sys_call_table in 8.0 kernels breaking any loadable modules that wish to implement non-implemented system calls such as LiS's or iBCS implementation of putmsg/getmsg. sys_call_table is exported in current 2.4 and 2.5 kernels. Until now, loadable modules have been able to just overwrite the non implemented point in the sys_call_table when they load and putting it back when they unload. There is no mechanism for registering system calls. What is the kernel.org take on this? --brian -- Brian F. G. Bidulock ? The reasonable man adapts himself to the ? bidulock@openss7.org ? world; the unreasonable one persists in ? http://www.openss7.org/ ? trying to adapt the world to himself. ? ? Therefore all progress depends on the ? ? unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/