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SubjectRe: A module bug in 2.2.1?
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Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be> writes:

> As
> > the purpose of the shell is to invoke insmod on unix.o (modprobe uses
> > system() to facilitate shell expansion of entries from modules.conf), the
> > module is finally inserted and processing continues.

I don't know the modutils package, but if as you write the sole
purpose of using the shell is to use the shell expansion there is a
better way: wordexp. Also new in glibc 2.1.

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