Re: kmod fix

Kirk Petersen (kirk@eidolon.speakeasy.org)
Thu, 12 Mar 1998 12:35:21 -0800

> > Now, anyone know how correct the above analysis is? I didn't
> > have a chance to look at the "offending" modules much (but will certainly
> > be doing that tonight).
>
> With kerneld, we had the ability to do ksystem() from a module. Have we
> lost this ability ?

Well, ksystem() passed a message to kerneld, so yes, we lost this
ability. Now, could someone tell me what ksystem() did? I did a search
through 2.1.89 and nothing used it. I read through the kerneld source
(because all ksystem() did was pass a message to kerneld) and it didn't
help much.

-- 
Kirk Petersen
speakeasy.org/~kirk/


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