On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 08:52:34PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> 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.
Long time ago a module loader has been published that is based on /dev/kmem
and works even for kernels without module support.
Ralf
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