Re: A system call in the kernel

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 12:53:52 EST

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Michael J Clark wrote:
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> Any ideas on hot to easily call an outside program from the kernel (like
> system(), exec()....) Is this possible? Thanks

Check exec_usermodehelper in kmod.c

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