Re: query related to /proc and read_write.c file

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Hi

On Monday 26 April 2004 16.54, bunty wrote:
> 2)what is the use of read_write.c file in fs directory of kernel
> source? the file contains sys_read, sys_write. why there is no function 
> that will read a user space file and write to it.

what do you mean by "user space file"?
actually these two functions read from and write to files.
They are system calls, called by write() and read() from user space.

feketga


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