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From: Joel Newkirk <netfilter@newkirk.us>
Subject: Re: About loadable kernel modules
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:06:51 -0400
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To: Alexandros Fragkiadakis <A.Fragiadakis@lboro.ac.uk>, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org

On Wednesday 02 October 2002 02:04 pm, Alexandros Fragkiadakis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Well, i have written a (netfilter) loadable kernel module for filtering
> various packets. I pass these packets from kernel space to user space u=
sing
> libipq. I also have a user process thas loads and unloads this loadable
> kernel module using the commands: system("insmod kernel_module.o")
> system("rmmod kernel_module") respectively.
>
>  I'd like to pass parameters to the loadable module, hence having a mor=
e
> flexible user process. So, instead of using the command system("insmod
> kernel_module.o"), i'd like to use: system("insmod kernel_module.o <par=
am1>
> <param2>...<param n>") , hence passing command line parameters to my
> loadable module.

Probably execl(*command,*arg1,*arg2,*arg3...,null) will do what you want.

j