Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:56:16 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Exec'ing user space helper programs |
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Thomas Sailer wrote: > > Exec'ing a user mode program however is not so straigtforward, > everytime I look into kmod.c the code gets more complex 8-) > Up to now I just copied the code from kmod.c into my driver, > but the code duplication starts to get annoying, furthermore > a couple of routines (free_uid and flush_signal_handlers) > are not even exported. > > So I'd like to export the exec-facility of kmod. > > The following is a patch to do this. > > Comments?
Looks good. This is something we'll probably need for other things: hot-plug devices need to inform user space about [dis-]appearance etc. Applied.
Linus
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