linux-kernel - Re: OT: calling kernel syscall manually

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Date:	Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:46:03 +0200
From:	"Miguel Ojeda" <maxextreme@...il.com>
To:	"Phillip Susi" <psusi@....rr.com>
Cc:	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	guest01 <guest01@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: calling kernel syscall manually

On 9/12/06, Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com> wrote:
> What do you mean you have removed the ability to make system calls
> directly?  That makes no sense.  Glibc has to be able to make system
> calls so you can write your own code that does the same thing if you want.
>

Well, they removed the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sys_call_table);

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-18/0173.html

You can still found syscall addresses with some "tricks".
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