Re: Syscall from Kernel Space

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 12:40:43 EST


On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:04:37PM +0530, Prasad wrote:
> Is there a way using which i could invoke a syscall in the kernel
> space? The syscall is to be run disguised as another process. The actual

Call sys_<syscall>. Look at the kernel code for examples.

Note that typically you don't want to do this... and you _really_ don't
want to do this if the syscall is not one of the common file I/O
syscalls (read/write/open/close, etc.)

        Jeff

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