Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:26:24 -0400 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: Size of pointers in sys_call_table? |
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Harald Barth wrote: > > Most linux kernel ports export the sys_call_table symbol to be used in > modules. I have not succeeded how to automatially figure out the size > of a syscall pointer without inspecting the assembler for the > architecture in question. Examples are mips and sparc64. Have I > missed a syscall_t type available or shouldn't there be one? > > Harald.
The layout of the sys_call_table is totally architecture dependant. The question to ask here is why do you need to use it? Modifying it to hook into syscalls is frowned upon.
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