hello, before I say anything, I want to acknowledge the fact that what I am doing most definatly should be done in user space, that there is no justifiable reason for wanting to do it in the kernel, and i realize that i shouldnt be doing this in the first place. NOW, with that acknowledge, I intend to proceed anyways. First let me briefly explain what I am doing. I am wanting to write an in-kernel QOTD/MOTD type server, where a remote user connects and gets the output of fortune, but also has the ability to type in something or other and cause it to spew forth another fortune. Silly yes, definatly better uncreated or if absolutely necessary, in user space. the issue there being, i already know how to do this in userspace. The problem I am having is that I call schedule_task() on a function which creates the necessary sockets, calls call_usermodehelper() to execute fortune and then does whatever else. The problem mainly being that I cannot seem to direct stdin/stdout/stderr to that socket, so far I've tried various things from implementing my own sys_dup2, trying to use dup, etc- and nothing seems to work. so in short the question is 'how', how do i do this? any help would be greatly appreciated. j -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
