Re: opening a file inside the kernel module

Jeff Garzik
2004-09-29T05:00:01Z

Rakesh Jagota wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am working in linux, i would like to know abt whether can I open a file
> inside the kernel module without using any application. If so how how the
> files_struct will be maintained. Does a kernel module has this struct?

Don't do this. It's incompatible with namespaces.

Instead, figure out some way to pass the file contents to the kernel module.

Jeff