From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: bidulock@openss7.org
Cc: kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: export of sys_call_table
Date: 03 Oct 2002 18:14:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033683270.909.32.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021003153943.E22418@openss7.org>
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 17:39, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
> I see that RH, in their infinite wisdom, have seen fit to remove
> the export of sys_call_table in 8.0 kernels breaking any loadable
> modules that wish to implement non-implemented system calls such
> as LiS's or iBCS implementation of putmsg/getmsg.
It is not safe.
> What is the kernel.org take on this?
I do not think it matters what our opinion is. Red Hat is free to do
whatever they wish. They certainly give enough back to kernel
development that they are able to. In this case, however, I see good
reason for it - overwriting syscall table entries has a number of sticky
points...
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-03 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-03 21:39 export of sys_call_table Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-03 22:02 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-03 23:06 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-04 9:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-04 11:19 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-04 11:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-04 11:55 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-04 13:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-03 23:10 ` Michal Jaegermann
2002-10-04 0:32 ` Andy Pfiffer
2002-10-04 9:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-06 14:17 ` Kasper Dupont
2003-01-03 8:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-04 21:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-04 21:44 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-12 5:43 ` Eric Blade
2002-10-03 22:14 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-10-03 22:23 ` Robert Love
2002-10-03 22:24 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-03 22:15 ` Greg KH
2002-10-03 22:27 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-03 22:27 ` Robert Love
2002-10-03 22:58 ` John Levon
2002-10-03 23:10 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-03 23:14 ` John Levon
2002-10-04 4:05 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2002-10-04 4:46 ` Greg KH
2002-10-04 4:53 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2002-10-03 23:35 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-03 23:50 ` John Levon
2002-10-04 0:17 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
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2002-10-04 4:03 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-10-04 5:32 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-04 11:42 ` John Levon
2002-10-04 12:03 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-04 13:02 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-04 17:36 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-10-05 1:39 ` John Levon
2002-10-04 13:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-04 15:15 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-04 15:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-04 16:19 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-04 16:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2002-10-04 13:01 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-04 13:11 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-04 13:15 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-04 13:22 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-04 14:11 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-04 14:31 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
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2002-10-04 18:14 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-04 18:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-04 18:45 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-04 19:15 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-04 19:26 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-04 19:37 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-10-04 19:43 ` Robert Love
2002-10-04 22:21 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-04 22:41 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2002-10-04 22:38 ` David S. Miller
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2002-10-04 21:54 Mark Veltzer
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