Re: changing internal kernel system mechanism in runtime by a module patch

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Thu Nov 16 2006 - 14:31:20 EST


On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:19:50PM +0200, Yitzchak Eidus wrote:
> is it possible to replace linux kernel internal functions such as
> schdule () to lets say my_schdule () in a run time with a module
> patch???
> (so that every call in the kernel to schdule() will go to my_schdule()... )
> ???
>
> i am talking about a clean/standard way to do such thing
> (without overwrite the mem address of the function and replace it in a
> dirty way...)

No.

cu
Adrian

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