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

[Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 16:18 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:02:08AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > >could someone kindly advise me on the location of some example code in
> > >the kernel which calls one of the userspace system calls from inside the
> > >kernel?
> > >
> > >alternatively if this has never been considered before, please could
> > >someone advise me as to how it might be achieved?
> > 
> > What are you trying to do?  
> 
>  call sys_rename, sys_pread, sys_create, sys_mknod, sys_rmdir
>  etc. - everything that does file access.
> 
> > In most cases needing to use syscalls from 
> > within the kernel is an indication of a design flaw.  
> 
>  in this case it's an attempt to avoid cutting and pasting
>  the entire contents of sys_rename, sys_pread, sys_this,
>  sys_that, removing the first couple and last few lines (that
>  do copy_from_user) and replacing the arguments with either
>  a dentry or a kernel-side char* instead of an __user char*.
> 
>  my alternative is to patch every single vfs-related sys_* in fs/*.c to
>  be able to "plug in" to these functions.

Why not implement it in user-space?

	Bernd
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