Issue while unloading modules via modprobe

Chetan Nanda chetannanda at gmail.com
Tue Dec 3 04:57:30 EST 2013


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Mandeep Sandhu
<mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com>wrote:

> >
> > error =  system("modprobe -rv A");
> >
> > This returns an error = 256.
>
> Hi Mandeep,

thanks for your mail

What does 'perror' show (if anything) ?
>
> Also, if you try the same via a shel, whats the return value ('echo
> $?') printed?
>
> echo $? show 1 (EPERM? most probably, operation not permitted for common
module).


> BTW, why are you using the '-v' option when invoking modprobe
> programatically?
>
> yes, -v option can be removed (behaviour is same even after removing -v
option)

-mandeep
>

Thanks,
Chetan Nanda
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