From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how do you call userspace syscalls (e.g. sys_rename) from inside kernel
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:02:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41669DE0.9050005@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041008130442.GE5551@lkcl.net>
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> could someone kindly advise me on the location of some example code in
> the kernel which calls one of the userspace system calls from inside the
> kernel?
>
> alternatively if this has never been considered before, please could
> someone advise me as to how it might be achieved?
What are you trying to do? In most cases needing to use syscalls from
within the kernel is an indication of a design flaw. The most common
case is loading firmware, which should use request_firmware() instead.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-08 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-08 13:04 how do you call userspace syscalls (e.g. sys_rename) from inside kernel Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-08 13:07 ` Fabiano Ramos
2004-10-08 13:38 ` Brice Goglin
2004-10-08 15:04 ` Fabiano Ramos
2004-10-08 15:35 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-08 14:02 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2004-10-08 15:18 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-08 15:12 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-08 17:03 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-08 15:18 ` Brice Goglin
2004-10-08 16:20 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-08 16:37 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-10-08 17:37 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-08 15:27 ` Brian Gerst
2004-10-08 17:04 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-12 0:15 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-12 13:16 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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2004-10-10 23:13 Aboo Valappil
2004-10-10 23:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-10-11 9:56 ` Jirka Kosina
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