Re: [PATCH] RE: Future Linux devel. Kernels

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 19:52:34 EST


Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> said:

[...]

> shouldn't modutils do the sysloggin?

insmod(8) is a very simple wrapper around the relevant syscall(s), it would
be way too easy to crack a system and get a "fixed" insmod to do the silent
module loading.

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