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-.TH INIT_MODULE 2 2013-01-07 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH INIT_MODULE 2 2014-05-10 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
init_module, finit_module \- load a kernel module
.SH SYNOPSIS
.fi
.IR Note :
-There are no glibc wrappers for these system calls; see NOTES.
+glibc provides no header file declaration of
+.BR init_module ()
+and no wrapper function for
+.BR finit_module ();
+see NOTES.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR init_module ()
loads an ELF image into kernel space,
.BR finit_module ()
are Linux-specific.
.SH NOTES
-Glibc does not provide a wrapper for these system calls; call them using
+The
+.BR init_module ()
+system call is not supported by glibc.
+No declaration is provided in glibc headers, but,
+through a quirk of history, glibc does export an ABI for this system call.
+Therefore, in order to employ this system call,
+it is sufficient to manually declare the interface in your code;
+alternatively, you can invoke the system call using
+.BR syscall (2).
+
+Glibc does not provide a wrapper for
+.BR finit_module ();
+call it using
.BR syscall (2).
Information about currently loaded modules can be found in
.BR lsmod (8),
.BR modprobe (8)
.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
-and information about reporting bugs,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
can be found at
\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.