Re: Nice values for kernel modules

From: John Levon (movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com)
Date: Sat Mar 16 2002 - 10:48:50 EST

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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:34:35PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:

> I can see no good reason why the syscall table has been exported.

please don't change this. Just because it breaks on architectures X
and Y doesn't mean it's useless.

System call snooping is an ugly thing but being able to do it without
patching the kernel is incredibly useful. We're not unaware that
it is arch-specific.

regards
john

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