2:delete module

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      delete_module - delete a loadable module entry
      

Contents 1 SYNOPSIS 2 DESCRIPTION 3 RETURN VALUE 4 ERRORS 5 CONFORMING TO 6 RELATED 7 CATEGORY

SYNOPSIS

      #include <linux/module.h>
 
      int delete_module(const char *name);

DESCRIPTION

      delete_module()  attempts  to remove an unused loadable module entry.  If name is NULL, all unused modules marked
      auto-clean will be removed.  This system call requires privilege.

RETURN VALUE

      On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

      EBUSY  The module is in use.
 
      EFAULT name is outside the program's accessible address space.
 
      EINVAL name was an empty string.
 
      ENOENT No module by that name exists.
 
      EPERM  The caller was not privileged (did not have the CAP_SYS_MODULE capability).

CONFORMING TO

      delete_module() is Linux specific.

RELATED

      create_module(2), init_module(2), query_module(2)

CATEGORY