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Re: loading a module

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:13:50AM +0530, C.Mohanasundaram wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I wrote a system call and loaded the module using insmod from my user land C 
> program and called the system call.

There is no such concept as loadable syscalls in Linux.
On some architectures you can overwrite sys_call_table entries,
but that's racy, unportable and will cause you problems in the future.

Yust don't do it!

	Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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