Message-ID: <4166B1F3.4020102@didntduck.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:27:47 -0400
From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how do you call userspace syscalls (e.g. sys_rename) from inside
 kernel
References: <20041008130442.GE5551@lkcl.net> <41669DE0.9050005@didntduck.org> <20041008151837.GI5551@lkcl.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041008151837.GI5551@lkcl.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 915
Lines: 28

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:02:08AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 
>>Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>
>>>could someone kindly advise me on the location of some example code in
>>>the kernel which calls one of the userspace system calls from inside the
>>>kernel?
>>>
>>>alternatively if this has never been considered before, please could
>>>someone advise me as to how it might be achieved?
>>
>>What are you trying to do?  
> 
> 
>  call sys_rename, sys_pread, sys_create, sys_mknod, sys_rmdir
>  etc. - everything that does file access.
> 

Why?  What are you trying to do that cannot be done in userspace?

--
				Brian Gerst
-
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/