Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262340AbTEIHbA (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 03:31:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262343AbTEIHbA (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 03:31:00 -0400 Received: from smtp.actcom.co.il ([192.114.47.13]:24252 "EHLO smtp1.actcom.net.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262340AbTEIHa6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 03:30:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 10:43:32 +0300 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda To: "J.A. Magallon" Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. Message-ID: <20030509074332.GB14991@actcom.co.il> References: <200305071507_MC3-1-37CF-FE32@compuserve.com> <1052387912.4849.43.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no> <20030508095943.B22255@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1052398474.4849.57.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no> <20030508135839.A6698@infradead.org> <3EBAAB9D.5000508@shemesh.biz> <20030508201509.A19496@infradead.org> <20030508214811.GC3458@werewolf.able.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030508214811.GC3458@werewolf.able.es> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1319 Lines: 42 --O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:48:11PM +0200, J.A. Magallon wrote: > Don't have followed the whole thread, so I don't know if somebody has alr= eady > said this, but all this thing about hooks looks perfect for projects like > bproc or mosix, have you talked to them ? > (perhaps Erik Hendriks -bproc- is following the thread...;) ) I don't know about bproc, but at least MOSIX is, as it currently stands, a kernel patch. Therefore, they can (and do) hijack the syscall table safely. If I remember the code correctly, they do it in entry.S, not in the sys_call_table itself.=20 --=20 Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org --O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+u1wkKRs727/VN8sRAmOJAJ0a/fIIqPC3u3P2nHfXbcrtN+L9gQCeIZIG jANKYgszsIi85aph22bTQY8= =LSJT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj-- - 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/