Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: export of sys_call_table | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 03 Jan 2003 01:28:44 -0700 |
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Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk> writes:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > I wonder why kmonte can't just use a reboot notifier.... existing > > infrastructure already ;( > > Because it doesn't hook sys_reboot to get notified about reboots. > It hooks sys_reboot to add new calls, it could have been a new > system call, but what monte does is slightly related to a reboot. > > I have myself added a feature to monte where it was essential to > hook the sys_reboot call and do something else when a reboot was > requested. Maybe I could have used a reboot notifier. > > What really bothers me about monte is: > 1) Doesn't work on SMP > 2) Doesn't seem to be maintened (does it even work on 2.5)? > 3) Is not completely stable > 4) Only available as a module, cannot be compiled in kernel. > 5) I couldn't get my additional feature working with the latest > version of monte. > > Perhaps there is some better alternative which I don't know?
kexec... It was an inch from being accepted into 2.5 last time I looked.
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