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From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
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Subject: Re: how do you call userspace syscalls (e.g. sys_rename) from inside kernel
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On Fri, 2004-10-08 17:20:25 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.=
net>
wrote in message <20041008162025.GL5551@lkcl.net>:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:18:40PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:

> > mm_segment_t old_fs;
> > old_fs =3D get_fs();
> > set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
> > <do you stuff here>
> > set_fs(old_fs);
> =20
>  that's it!  that's what i was looking for.  thank you.

Most probably, this is not what you were looking for. You just don't
know that yet (-:

MfG, JBG

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