Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export.

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:48:11PM +0200, J.A. Magallon wrote:

> Don't have followed the whole thread, so I don't know if somebody has alr=
eady
> said this, but all this thing about hooks looks perfect for projects like
> bproc or mosix, have you talked to them ?
> (perhaps Erik Hendriks <[e-mail]> -bproc- is following the
thread...;) )

I don't know about bproc, but at least MOSIX is, as it currently
stands, a kernel patch. Therefore, they can (and do) hijack the
syscall table safely. If I remember the code correctly, they do it in
entry.S, not in the sys_call_table itself.=20
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org

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