Re: intercepting syscalls

[Timur Tabi]

Terje Malmedal wrote:

>   Every so often there is bug in the kernel, by patching the
>   syscall-table I have been able to fix bugs in ioperm and fsync without
>   rebooting the box. 
>
>   What do I do the next time I need to do something like this? 

Nothing.

You have to understand that the kernel developers don't want to add support for doing 
things the "wrong way", even if the "wrong way" is more convenient for YOU.  In the long 
wrong, the "wrong way" will cause more trouble than it saves.

Fixing kernels bugs without rebooting the computer is not something that the kernel 
developers want to support.  Besides, that sounds like a ridiculous thing to do, anyway. 
I don't see how anyone can reasonably expect any OS to handle that.

--
Timur Tabi
Staff Software Engineer
timur.tabi@xxxxxxxxxxx
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/