Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262175AbVDRTUE (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:20:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262172AbVDRTUE (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:20:04 -0400 Received: from rrcs-24-227-247-8.sw.biz.rr.com ([24.227.247.8]:58530 "EHLO emachine.austin.ammasso.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262170AbVDRTT7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:19:59 -0400 Message-ID: <42640856.4060203@ammasso.com> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:19:50 -0500 From: Timur Tabi Organization: Ammasso User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terje Malmedal CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: intercepting syscalls References: <6533c1c905041511041b846967@mail.gmail.com> <1113588694.6694.75.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <6533c1c905041512411ec2a8db@mail.gmail.com> <6533c1c905041512594bb7abb4@mail.gmail.com> <6533c1c905041807487a872025@mail.gmail.com> <1113836378.6274.69.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <6533c1c9050418080639e41fb@mail.gmail.com> <1113837657.6274.74.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 27 Terje Malmedal wrote: > Every so often there is bug in the kernel, by patching the > syscall-table I have been able to fix bugs in ioperm and fsync without > rebooting the box. > > What do I do the next time I need to do something like this? Nothing. You have to understand that the kernel developers don't want to add support for doing things the "wrong way", even if the "wrong way" is more convenient for YOU. In the long wrong, the "wrong way" will cause more trouble than it saves. Fixing kernels bugs without rebooting the computer is not something that the kernel developers want to support. Besides, that sounds like a ridiculous thing to do, anyway. I don't see how anyone can reasonably expect any OS to handle that. -- Timur Tabi Staff Software Engineer timur.tabi@ammasso.com - 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/