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

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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 (-:

MfG, JBG

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