Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 05:12:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 05:12:31 -0500 Received: from euston.inpharmatica.co.uk ([193.115.214.6]:25552 "EHLO sunsvr03.inpharmatica.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 05:12:20 -0500 Message-ID: <3BDE7D22.8000006@purplet.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:12:50 +0000 From: Mike Jagdis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] syscall exports - against 2.4.14-pre3 In-Reply-To: <20011029173711.B24272@caldera.de> 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 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi Linus, > > once again the syscall export patch - back to EXPORT_SYMBOL > vs EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL due to some complaints, more syscalls > as I dropped sys_call_table abuse in linux-abi. The whole *point* of the sys_call_table "abuse" was to avoid having the whole damn lot in the export list! As a side effect it meant that any module that patched the sys_call_table (funky tracers, security hot-fixes, whatever) would work seamlessly with non-Linux binaries. > Could you _please_ apply it - it is badly needed for foreign > personalities compiled as modules. I can't see why? iBCS always was a module for years before linux-abi dumped it back in a humungous kernel patch. Mike - 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/