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NAME
       get_kernel_syms - retrieve exported kernel and module symbols


SYNOPSIS
       #include <linux/module.h>

       int get_kernel_syms(struct kernel_sym *table);


DESCRIPTION
       Note: This system call is present only in kernels before Linux 2.6.

       If  table  is  NULL,  get_kernel_syms()  returns the number of symbols available for query.  Otherwise it
       fills in a table of structures:

           struct kernel_sym {
               unsigned long value;
               char          name[60];
           };

       The symbols are interspersed with magic symbols of the form #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.

       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.


RETURN VALUE
       On success, returns the number of symbols copied to table.  On error, -1 is returned  and  errno  is  set
       appropriately.


ERRORS
       There is only one possible error return:

       ENOSYS get_kernel_syms() is not supported in this version of the kernel.


VERSIONS
       This system call is present on Linux only up until kernel 2.4; it was removed in Linux 2.6.


CONFORMING TO
       get_kernel_syms() is Linux-specific.


BUGS
       There  is  no  way to indicate the size of the buffer allocated for table.  If symbols have been added to
       the kernel since the program queried for the symbol table size, memory will be corrupted.

       The length of exported symbol names is limited to 59 characters.

       Because of these limitations, this system call is deprecated in favor of query_module(2) (which is itself
       nowadays deprecated in favor of other interfaces described on its manual page).


SEE ALSO
       create_module(2), delete_module(2), init_module(2), query_module(2)


COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part  of  release 3.54 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and
       information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.