Re: Inserting code from userspace to kernel space

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Thursday 2008-05-22 14:41, Bosko Radivojevic wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I'm looking for a way to insert code from user space to the kernel
>space, but without using kernel module. Actually, we are working on a
>system that has to allow end user to change part of code (one or two
>functions) that is executed from the kernel space.
>
>For now we have two different kernel modules, one exporting a function
>which another module uses. Process of compiling kernel module is quite
>ineligible for standard end user (along with the requirement to
>support multi platform cross compiling) compared to just cross
>compiling a simple code that doesn't use any libraries than libc.
>
>I know this sounds quite weird, but maybe there is a project that can help us ;)

I'm impressed you have yet refrained from coming up with the
idea of embedding Perl into the kernel.
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