Re: OT: calling kernel syscall manually

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Tue Sep 12 2006 - 16:46:55 EST


On 9/12/06, Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What do you mean you have removed the ability to make system calls
directly? That makes no sense. Glibc has to be able to make system
calls so you can write your own code that does the same thing if you want.


Well, they removed the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sys_call_table);

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-18/0173.html

You can still found syscall addresses with some "tricks".
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