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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:04:26 +0100
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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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, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:27:47AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:

> >>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?
 
 see other message: i'm trying to combine fuse + its example program
 fusexmp into a kernelspace module: when i added xattrs i get a -512
 pleasetrylater response which selinux cannot cope with.

 l.

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