On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 09:14:49PM -0700, kernel rakshakudu wrote: > Hi, > I am writing a kernel thread which opens a file and > writes into it everytime in a continous loop. The > Kernel thread is started by a system call. > > The problem is the file openning by Kernel thread > fails and sys_open() returns -14 (EFAULT). Can any > body help me in this ??? Also if you know any url > where there is good discussion or documentation of > kernel threads, keventd , let me know. Generally speaking, you never ever want to call sys_* In this case you want to call filp_open directly (and work with struct filp *, not a file descriptor - you don't have a descriptor table). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
