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Date:      Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:43:13 -0400
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org>, Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Cannot mount linprocfs by unresolving sysvs?m symbols
Message-ID:  <200704061443.15071.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070406181138.GA90738@freebsd.org>
References:  <20070407023855.ede13b76.nork@FreeBSD.org> <200704061407.35340.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20070406181138.GA90738@freebsd.org>

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On Friday 06 April 2007 02:11 pm, Roman Divacky wrote:
> > > is there a way to do this nicely?
> >
> > Probably we can improve kernel linker to do better job. ;-)  I
> > mean, load all dependencies before look up symbols.
>
> thats not what I mean.. what I want is something like
>
> if (function_present(foo))
>    x = foo();
> else
>    x = SAFE_VALUE;
>
> use x somehow;
>
> so we don't have to have all modules loaded etc. the same could be
> done for some syscalls, imagine
>
> linux_foo(params)
> {
>    if (function_present(foo))
>       return foo(params);
>   else
>       return ENOSYS;
> }
>
> I like this better then loading all possible modules.

I know what you meant but it is more heavier than what we have now.  
If you insist, you can do something like linux_ipc.c.  Check out 
linux_msgctl() and linux_semctl().  Module presence check is easy.

Jung-uk Kim



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