Re: how do you call userspace syscalls (e.g. sys_rename) from inside kernel

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 06:37:01PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 17:20:25 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote in message <20041008162025.GL5551@xxxxxxxx>:
> > On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:18:40PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> 
> > > mm_segment_t old_fs;
> > > old_fs = get_fs();
> > > set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
> > > <do you stuff here>
> > > set_fs(old_fs);
> >  
> >  that's it!  that's what i was looking for.  thank you.
> 
> Most probably, this is not what you were looking for. You just don't
> know that yet (-:
 
 *grin*.  yeh, like someone else privately responded saying i might want
 to look at compat_alloc_userspace() instead :)


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