RE: Unresolved Symbol error

[Dunlap, Randy]

> I am trying to create a catcher module that will provide a 
> distributed layer over the file system. To do this I am using 
> a kernel module to intercept and pre process the open system 
> call. However I need to use some functions such as strlen() 
> and memcpy() etc. When I try to compile the module it 
> compiles fine. Without any errors. However when I insert the 
> module using insmod <module name> I get an error:
> catcher.o: unresolved symbol strlen
> 
> I am compiling the module using -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DLINUX 
> options. Is there some thing else that I have to do to use 
> the strlen function. 

Also use -O2 .

~Randy