Re: access_ok inside kernelspace

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 11:48:29 +0100 (BST)

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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> yes, reusing the methods that filesystems (or others) provide is a good
> thing. Going through int 0x80 is *also* a good thing. But they are two
> completely different things.

Forgot to add that going through sys_XXX() function is yet 3rd *completely
different* thing which was the main point of the assertion "all access to
system calls from kernel space should go through _syscallX()".

If that is invalid assertion - I stand in hope to be corrected.

Regards,
Tigran.

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