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Re: [PATCH] Add finit_module syscall for Linux

From:  "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph-AT-codesourcery.com>
To:  Kees Cook <keescook-AT-chromium.org>
Subject:  Re: [PATCH] Add finit_module syscall for Linux
Date:  Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:16:38 +0000
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.64.1301230313330.6579@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
Cc:  <libc-alpha-AT-sourceware.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Kees Cook wrote:

> This adds the new Linux finit_module() syscall.

There's no point in adding syscalls to syscalls.list without at least 
adding a symbol version so the function is actually exported from libc.so.  
Note that in the kexec_load discussion last May / June, doubts were 
expressed about whether some existing module-related syscalls really 
should have had functions in glibc.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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