Re: [PATCH] Add finit_module syscall for Linux

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Tuesday 22 January 2013 22:16:38 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> 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.

the lack of a header file that exports prototypes for these functions seems 
like bad form too (not a new issue to finit_module)
-mike

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