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To: Amber Palekar <amber_palekar@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: syscall from modules
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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Date: 25 Dec 2001 14:09:19 +0100
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>>>>> " " == Amber Palekar <amber_palekar@yahoo.com> writes:

     >  Hi,
     >    I am trying to write a linux kernel module.I want
     >  to use sys_sendto,sys_recvfrom etc calls from the
     >  module.However these symbols are not present in 'ksyms'.One
     >  sluggish option is to modify socket.c ( which contains these
     >  function definitions ) to export the symbols. However this
     >  would require
     > comiling the entire kernel.Is there a descent way to do this ??

Hi,

Just use sock_sendmsg() and sock_recvmsg() directly. They are both
exported in netsyms.c.

Cheers,
  Trond
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