> you can create a character device, and use it for logging. > you can then have a user space daemon which reads the device, and writes > the output to a file. the idea sounds good too. but when i researched more i found out how to fork() a child process and let it write the values to a file. thank you & best regards threadhead _____________________________________________________________________ Der WEB.DE Virenschutz schuetzt Ihr Postfach vor dem Wurm Beagle.A-J! Kostenfrei fuer FreeMail Nutzer. http://f.web.de/?mc=021158 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/