On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:25:14AM -0400, Fabrice Tchakountio wrote: > All - > > Can someone tell me how to add a "fresh" syscall to a running kernel > without replacing an existing syscall based on the LKM interface? > > Unlike some BSD kernels (FreeBSD in particular), it appears to me > that we can't dynamically add/remove new syscalls without touching > some existing syscalls. It's a policy decision to not allow loadable syscall modules. On some architectures you can modify the sys_call_table array directly, but that is not only unportable but also very racy. Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
