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.\" 2006-02-09, some reformatting by Luc Van Oostenryck; some
.\" reformatting and rewordings by mtk
.\"
-.TH get_kernel_syms 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.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>
-.PP
+.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.
-.PP
+.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:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
struct kernel_sym {
@@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ struct kernel_sym {
};
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.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.
-.PP
+.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.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Linux.
.SH HISTORY
Removed in Linux 2.6.
.\" Removed in Linux 2.5.48
-.PP
+.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.
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ 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.
-.PP
+.P
The length of exported symbol names is limited to 59 characters.
-.PP
+.P
Because of these limitations, this system call is deprecated in
favor of
.BR query_module (2)