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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:02:48 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Richard J Moore <richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4 Ready list - Kernel Hooks
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Richard J Moore wrote:
> Kernel Hooks is also ready,

I'm a bit puzzled as to what those hooks accomplish. They look
like a less flexible but a little faster and more portable
variant of kprobes.

Is this what they are ? If yes, does it really make sense to
have two so similar mechanisms for tapping into execution flows
in the kernel ?

- Werner

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