From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Rakesh Jagota <j.rakesh@gdatech.co.in>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: opening a file inside the kernel module
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 01:00:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <415A4151.7060301@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006001c4a5df$ad605c40$8200a8c0@RakeshJagota>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-29 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-28 22:40 get_user_pages() still broken in 2.6 Timur Tabi
2004-09-28 23:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-28 23:21 ` Dave Hansen
2004-09-29 14:46 ` Timur Tabi
2004-09-29 14:48 ` Timur Tabi
2004-09-29 15:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-29 4:49 ` opening a file inside the kernel module Rakesh Jagota
2004-09-29 5:00 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-09-29 5:56 ` Rakesh Jagota
2004-09-29 15:52 ` Stuart MacDonald
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