Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:26:29 -0400 (EDT) | From | Greg Zornetzer <> | Subject | Re: daemon-less kmod & Alpha no-go! |
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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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