Re: do_execve().

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On Fri, 5 May 2000, Paul Burkacki wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am tryimg to execute do_execve() from within a driver to
> trigger execution of a script in user mode. The call fails
> with -14 (EFAULT, I believe). I *think* I am setting up all
> arguments for do_execve() correctly but, since I haven't found
> any examples of its use, I am not sure.
>
> Could anyone point me to where I could find exmples of how to
> correctly call do_execve()? I am particularly curious about
> envp and pt_regs.

Bad thing to do. You can't be sure that the path exists, it's
distro-specific.
Also you can't be sure that the fs that the file is on is mounted at time
the driver is initialised.

Do this from userspace. Accessing files from kernelspace is a BAD thing to
do.

> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Burkacki
> Axent Technologies, Inc.

        Regards,

                Igmar

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