Re: Modules loading/unloading?

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jsgf@sirius.com)
Sat, 26 Sep 1998 18:57:40 -0700 (PDT)


On 26-Sep-98 Rik van Riel wrote:
> other inefficiencies shouldn't matter, since nobody will be
> insmoding/rmmoding their driver continuously :)

*shudder* is not because of the performance, it's because system() uses /bin/sh
to do its work, which is almost infinitely corruptible. Use exec*() directly.

J

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