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From: "Rakesh Jagota" <j.rakesh@gdatech.co.in>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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 11:26:30 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001c01c4a5e9$114bf490$8200a8c0@RakeshJagota> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415A4151.7060301@pobox.com>

Hi,
Thnx.

I want to implement socket from the module. I won't be having any user
process running to handle the descriptors coming from socket. Could you pl
tell me how to handle the socket descriptor from the kernel module.

Thanks,
rakesh
----- Original Message -----
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>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: opening a file inside the kernel module


> 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
>
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-29  5:56 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
2004-09-29  5:56     ` Rakesh Jagota [this message]
2004-09-29 15:52       ` Stuart MacDonald, linux-kernel-owner

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