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Re: [PATCH] Add finit_module syscall for Linux


From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:54:34 -0800 (PST)

> This is both ignoring and rehashing the previous discussion on this topic,
> while not adding any new arguments.

It makes no sense for every tool that wants to support
doing things with kernel modules to do the syscall()
thing, propagating potential errors in argument signatures
into more than one location instead of getting it right in
one canonical place, libc.


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