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From: "Kristian Sørensen" <ks@cs.aau.dk>
To: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reading large /proc entry from kernel module
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:31:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503090031.17502.ks@cs.aau.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16942.12134.913207.508414@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 00:04, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >>>>> "Kristian" == Kristian Sørensen <ks@cs.aau.dk> writes:
>
> Kristian> Hi all!  I have some trouble reading a 2346 byte /proc entry
> Kristian> from our Umbrella kernel module.
>
>
> Kristian> static int umb_proc_write(struct file *file, const char *buffer,
> Kristian>                          unsigned long count, void *data) {
> Kristian>	char *policy;
> Kristian>	int *lbuf;
> Kristian>	int i;
>
> Here's your problem:  lbuf should be a char * not an int *.
> When you look lbuf[0] you'll get the first four characters packed
> into the int.
Okay, thanks! :-D That solves the first error :)

However, I still only get the the first 1003 characters, when I traverse the 
buffer :-/

-- 
Kristian Sørensen
E-mail: ipqw@users.sf.net, Phone: +45 29723816

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-08 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-08 13:45 Reading large /proc entry from kernel module Kristian Sørensen
2005-03-08 23:04 ` Peter Chubb
2005-03-08 23:31   ` Kristian Sørensen [this message]
2005-03-09 15:17 ` Bob Bennett
2005-03-09 21:59   ` Kristian Sørensen

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