Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export.

Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-05T13:30:02Z

> I use the following calls:
>
> sys_mknod
> sys_chown
> sys_umask
> sys_unlink
>
> for creating/deleting /dev entries dynamically on driver
> loading/unloading. It allows me to acquire dynamic major
> number without devfs and external utility of any kind.
> And there is no risk of intersection with statically assigned major
> numbers, as it is for many others third-party sources.

You don't want to tell me you do that for real, do you?
That alone is a very good idea to unexport the syscall table without
exporting those symbols..