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Re: [PATCH] Add finit_module syscall for Linux
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>> We get into trouble, like the double definitions of "struct in6_addr"
>> et al. in netinet/in.h vs. the kernel header, exactly because glibc's
>> support for kernel provided interfaces is sometimes out of sync or
>> missing completely.
>
> That kind of case really doesn't speak to the issue at hand. We're talking
> here about arcane syscalls that no normal program uses at all. There is no
> part of the related kernel interface that we'd declare in libc headers.
I think it's entirely sensible to define an interface to
(f)init_module. It seems sloppy to require a program to use syscall()
for a known interface.
As for other missing syscalls, at least kcmp comes to mind.
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security