Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export.

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda (mulix@mulix.org)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 02:43:32 EST

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 already
> said this, but all this thing about hooks looks perfect for projects like
> bproc or mosix, have you talked to them ?
> (perhaps Erik Hendriks <erik@hendriks.cx> -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. 

-- 
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org
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