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diff --git a/man2/create_module.2 b/man2/create_module.2 deleted file mode 100644 index 153acc2..0000000 --- a/man2/create_module.2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,72 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0-or-later -.\" -.\" 2006-02-09, some reformatting by Luc Van Oostenryck; some -.\" reformatting and rewordings by mtk -.\" -.TH create_module 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -create_module \- create a loadable module entry -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include <linux/module.h> -.P -.BI "[[deprecated]] caddr_t create_module(const char *" name ", size_t " size ); -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -.IR Note : -This system call is present only before Linux 2.6. -.P -.BR create_module () -attempts to create a loadable module entry and reserve the kernel memory -that will be needed to hold the module. -This system call requires privilege. -.SH RETURN VALUE -On success, returns the kernel address at which the module will reside. -On error, \-1 is returned and -.I errno -is set to indicate the error. -.SH ERRORS -.TP -.B EEXIST -A module by that name already exists. -.TP -.B EFAULT -.I name -is outside the program's accessible address space. -.TP -.B EINVAL -The requested size is too small even for the module header information. -.TP -.B ENOMEM -The kernel could not allocate a contiguous block of memory large -enough for the module. -.TP -.B ENOSYS -.BR create_module () -is not supported in this version of the kernel -(e.g., Linux 2.6 or later). -.TP -.B EPERM -The caller was not privileged -(did not have the -.B CAP_SYS_MODULE -capability). -.SH STANDARDS -Linux. -.SH HISTORY -Removed in Linux 2.6. -.\" Removed in Linux 2.5.48 -.P -This obsolete system call is not supported by glibc. -No declaration is provided in glibc headers, but, through a quirk of history, -glibc versions before glibc 2.23 did export an ABI for this system call. -Therefore, in order to employ this system call, -it was sufficient to manually declare the interface in your code; -alternatively, you could invoke the system call using -.BR syscall (2). -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR delete_module (2), -.BR init_module (2), -.BR query_module (2) |