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* kernel thread --> user process
@ 2002-03-02 20:06 Joel Hollingsworth
  2002-03-02 20:30 ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Joel Hollingsworth @ 2002-03-02 20:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel



I would like to push a kernel thread into a user-level process through
the use of execve. The kernel thread is started from a loadable 
module - so there has been no user-level process dipping into the 
kernel that we could just replace. 

The process init does something similar. From what I've been reading it
just calls execve() and magically it is a user-level process. Since 
my code does not generate a user-level process I assume there is more
to it than that. Can someone point me in the right direction to 
accomplishing this? Do I need to generate a user-land stack frame? How?

Please cc jhollingsworth@elon.edu as I'm currently not subscribed.

Thanks for reading.

-joel


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