Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:40:43 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Syscall from Kernel Space |
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:04:37PM +0530, Prasad wrote: > Is there a way using which i could invoke a syscall in the kernel > space? The syscall is to be run disguised as another process. The actual
Call sys_<syscall>. Look at the kernel code for examples.
Note that typically you don't want to do this... and you _really_ don't want to do this if the syscall is not one of the common file I/O syscalls (read/write/open/close, etc.)
Jeff
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