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
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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, linux-kernel-owner
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