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SubjectRe: daemon-less kmod & Alpha no-go!
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> All,
>
> After doing a full day's battle with the latest version of Adam's
> no-daemon kmod on my Alpha UDB, I'm stumped.
>
> By placing printk's in the kernel and printf's in modprobe, I can verify
> that modprobe is definitely getting called with the correct arguments.
> However, it simply refuses to _do_ anything! In spite of this, the
> execve() call gets back a successful status, so no complaints are issued.
>
> The same code works splendidly on my two Intel boxes, so I suspect the
> problem is related to the context created by the kernel execve() call on
> Alpha linux. And, yes, the stock kmod in 2.1.97 works fine.
>
> I'm open to suggestions for tracking this down.
Hi Steven,

Can you check if the waitpid() call in request_module is actually causing
a wait, or if it is just being ignored? Happened to some code that I was
writing very similar to the daemonless kmod patch.

Greg Zornetzer - gaz+@andrew.cmu.edu
"Light shines brightest in the darkest night"
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~gaz



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