Subject: Re: how do you call userspace syscalls (e.g. sys_rename)
	from	inside kernel
From: Fabiano Ramos <ramos_fabiano@yahoo.com.br>
To: Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:04:50 -0300
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On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 15:38 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> > For every sys_xx there is a do_xx, that can
> > be called from inside the kernel.
> 
> Well, not every sys_xx, but most of them :)

yes, you're right. ptrace() is another example.
Too quick of an answer from may part  ;)


> For example there's no do_epoll_ctl for sys_epoll_ctl.
> I requested this one a long time ago but didn't get it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brice Goglin
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