Re: Size of pointers in sys_call_table?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 11:17:24 EST

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> The layout of the sys_call_table is totally architecture dependant. The
> question to ask here is why do you need to use it? Modifying it to hook
> into syscalls is frowned upon.

And potentially unsafe (think about caching, and non atomic writes on
some platforms)

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