From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267209AbUHIVIE (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:08:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267226AbUHIVID (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:08:03 -0400 Received: from demon.dataflame.co.uk ([216.127.70.18]:42423 "EHLO demon.dataflame.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267209AbUHIVIB (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:08:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4117E68A.4090701@future-ericsoft.com> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 17:03:06 -0400 From: Eric Masson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Fork and Exec a process within the kernel X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I know it's not the best approach to the problem I'm attempting to solve, but I'm attempting to fork a thread and exec a process from inside the kernel. I tried creating a kernel thread and attempted to exec from there. I actually make it into my child thread, but the exec doesn't appear to do anything. Any ideas how to do this. Eric