Re: linux-2.5.7

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 10:02:50 +1000

On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 09:48:38 +1000 (EST),
Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>I cannot see the weak aliases being a real fix either.
>If you compile with NFSD as a module, and with CONFIG_KMOD, then the
>nfssvc_ctl systemcall is suppose to auto-load nfsd.o. How can this be
>achieved with weak aliases?

System calls cannot be in modules. Linus forbids it (that way lies
"extend and embrace") and at least two architectures (ia64, ppc64)
break when a syscall is in a module.

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