but what about masking the process. An example is... I want to use the
mmap syscall. the kernel implementation uses current->mm, but what i want
to do is, the current macro or the get_current() function should give me
the task_struct of a process so that the effect of the syscall is seen on
that process and not on the current kernel thread.
Prasad.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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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