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jmjonesat_private

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Titus D. Winters wrote:

> Can I get a feel for the idea of having a hook that will govern letting a
> module be detected?  I can imagine there are some securiyt modules (mine
> for example) that would rather not broadcast their existence via someone
> running lsmod.  I think I know where to add it already.
> 
> -Titus
> 

Detect or Identify?

There are ways in the old/existing interface to deterimine of 
a module (any module) is installed.

register_security(*pointer);

returns success if security_ops is dummy and pointer is not (with a few 
minor validation checks.)

J. Melvin Jones

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