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diff --git a/man2/get_kernel_syms.2 b/man2/get_kernel_syms.2 deleted file mode 100644 index a1029b1..0000000 --- a/man2/get_kernel_syms.2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,88 +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 get_kernel_syms 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -get_kernel_syms \- retrieve exported kernel and module symbols -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include <linux/module.h> -.P -.BI "[[deprecated]] int get_kernel_syms(struct kernel_sym *" table ); -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -.BR Note : -This system call is present only before Linux 2.6. -.P -If -.I table -is NULL, -.BR get_kernel_syms () -returns the number of symbols available for query. -Otherwise, it fills in a table of structures: -.P -.in +4n -.EX -struct kernel_sym { - unsigned long value; - char name[60]; -}; -.EE -.in -.P -The symbols are interspersed with magic symbols of the form -.BI # module-name -with the kernel having an empty name. -The value associated with a symbol of this form is the address at -which the module is loaded. -.P -The symbols exported from each module follow their magic module tag -and the modules are returned in the reverse of the -order in which they were loaded. -.SH RETURN VALUE -On success, returns the number of symbols copied to -.IR table . -On error, \-1 is returned and -.I errno -is set to indicate the error. -.SH ERRORS -There is only one possible error return: -.TP -.B ENOSYS -.BR get_kernel_syms () -is not supported in this version of the kernel. -.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 BUGS -There is no way to indicate the size of the buffer allocated for -.IR table . -If symbols have been added to the kernel since the -program queried for the symbol table size, memory will be corrupted. -.P -The length of exported symbol names is limited to 59 characters. -.P -Because of these limitations, this system call is deprecated in -favor of -.BR query_module (2) -(which is itself nowadays deprecated -in favor of other interfaces described on its manual page). -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR create_module (2), -.BR delete_module (2), -.BR init_module (2), -.BR query_module (2) |