Re: writing from kernel

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd@daimi.au.dk)
Date: Sat Jan 04 2003 - 17:24:47 EST

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anil vijarnia wrote:
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> can anyone tell me how to write into i file from kernel space.
> i tried sys_open,sys_write functions bbbbbut they don't work
> from my module.

That is rarely a good idea. But if you insist on doing it anyway,
you could use filp_open and the methods in the returned struct.
I have an old code example here:

http://www.daimi.au.dk/~kasperd/linux_kernel/kcp.c

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