RE: Unresolved Symbol error

From: Dunlap, Randy (randy.dunlap@intel.com)
Date: Sat Feb 10 2001 - 17:28:04 EST

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    > I am trying to create a catcher module that will provide a
    > distributed layer over the file system. To do this I am using
    > a kernel module to intercept and pre process the open system
    > call. However I need to use some functions such as strlen()
    > and memcpy() etc. When I try to compile the module it
    > compiles fine. Without any errors. However when I insert the
    > module using insmod <module name> I get an error:
    > catcher.o: unresolved symbol strlen
    >
    > I am compiling the module using -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DLINUX
    > options. Is there some thing else that I have to do to use
    > the strlen function.

    Also use -O2 .

    ~Randy

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