Re: System call interposition/unprotecting the table

Alan Cox wrote:
> This is to protect it from being changed by an attacker or someone trying
> to do strange and bogus things to the kernel.
>   

Someone who apparently hasn't heard of vmap(), etc.

It's a debug aid at best.

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