On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:50:51AM +0530, Chirag Kantharia wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 05:18:32PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > | > Morever, I don't have a filesystem in the kernel, and so I guess, this > | > won't work. Is there any other way? > | Sure, do it in userland. Opening and using a serial port smells like > | policy, and policy should always be done in userland. > > Thanx for the reply. But, is there a way to invoke userland process > without a filesystem? No, but you'll need a filesystem anyway because otherwise the kernel can't start init. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
