Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:54:35 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd |
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[resending because my mobile device decided it wanted to send HTML, which of course bounced.]
On Oct 10, 2012 12:09 AM, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > > On 10/10/2012 06:03 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > Good point. A "whole hog" openat()-style interface is worth thinking about too. > > *Although* you could argue that you can always simply open the module > file first, and that finit_module() is really what we should have had in > the first place. Then you don't need the flags since those would come > from openat().
But in that case, I'd still stand by my original point: it may be desirable to have a flags argument to allow future modifications to the behavior of finit_module() (as opposed to the behavior of the file open).
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