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Re: __NR_SYSCALL_BASE undefined error

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:36:19AM +0000, krishnan charumathi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Could you say Why is it not allowed?? Ami not allowed to do "insmod" as 
> super user that will load the module into the kernel and check if the 
> system call can be called, by logging in as an other user??

No, the ability to put a system call into a module is not allowed
currently both by the existing design of the kernel, and because Linus
does not want this to happen.

You can have a syscall call into your module if it is present, if you
register your module with the core after it is loaded.  The LSM patch
(at http://lsm.immunix.org/ ) does this if you want an example.

thanks,

greg k-h
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