Re: Demo of patching syscalls from a module

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Fri, 5 Jun 1998 08:23:40 +0100 (BST)

On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 07:58:54AM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> > EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS will export no symbols. I need DONTEXPORT_THIS_SYMBOL
> > type of thing ;)
>
> We explicitly do not support such a construct.
>
> First, know that if there are any symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL,
> there will be no implicitly exported symbols. The implicit exporting
> of symbols is a backward compatibility hook; new code should not use it.
Yes, thank you. I realised that after Rogier Wolff's reply (is he Rogier
or Roger, btw?). So, the rule is - if I have nothing to export use
EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS, if I have at least one symbol to export - use
EXPORT_SYMBOL(symbol) and then nothing else will be "auto"-exported.

Thanks,
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Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com/
Escalations Research Group | Email: tigran@sco.com
Santa Cruz Operation Ltd |

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