Re: how do you call userspace syscalls (e.g. sys_rename) from insidekernel

[Brian Gerst]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:02:08AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
> > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >
> > > could someone kindly advise me on the location of some example code in
> > > the kernel which calls one of the userspace system calls from inside the
> > > kernel?
> > >
> > > alternatively if this has never been considered before, please could
> > > someone advise me as to how it might be achieved?
> >
> > What are you trying to do?  
>
>
>  call sys_rename, sys_pread, sys_create, sys_mknod, sys_rmdir
>  etc. - everything that does file access.

Why?  What are you trying to do that cannot be done in userspace?

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				Brian Gerst
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