export of sys_call_table

Brian F. G. Bidulock (bidulock@openss7.org)
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:39:43 -0600

I see that RH, in their infinite wisdom, have seen fit to remove
the export of sys_call_table in 8.0 kernels breaking any loadable
modules that wish to implement non-implemented system calls such
as LiS's or iBCS implementation of putmsg/getmsg.

sys_call_table is exported in current 2.4 and 2.5 kernels.

Until now, loadable modules have been able to just overwrite
the non implemented point in the sys_call_table when they load
and putting it back when they unload. There is no mechanism
for registering system calls.

What is the kernel.org take on this?

--brian

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