Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267660AbUIUMzj (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:55:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267661AbUIUMzj (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:55:39 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:65152 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267660AbUIUMzd (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:55:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:54:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Evgeniy Polyakov cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel connector - userspace <-> kernelspace "linker". In-Reply-To: <20040921124623.GA6942@uganda.factory.vocord.ru> Message-ID: References: <1095331899.18219.58.camel@uganda> <20040921124623.GA6942@uganda.factory.vocord.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 18 Hello, This looks like a thinly veiled attempt to provide kernel hooks so that non-GPL user-mode code can execute within the kernel and trash it. I think the kernel developers are smart enough so they won't allow any priviliged kernel-mode 'callback' to user code. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/