Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:10:01 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: access_ok inside kernelspace |
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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> [...] there *is* one case where going through _syscallX() and > therefore int 0x80 from the kernel *is* the only way. This is when the > caller is a module. That is how I call sysfs() from BFS module.
You can pick whichever variant you prefer - obviously you should pick the fastest possible one. A number of system call base functions are exported btw. as a kernel symbol, so you can link your module eg. against sys_close() just fine.
-- mingo
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