On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 11:19, bunty wrote:
>
> hi Gabor,
> let me explain you what exactly i want. i want to read and write to /proc entry file that i created in /proc after Praveen help me how to create proc entry.My questio whether i can use read and write and open funcion calls on /proc entry to update its contents if not can you tell me how can i acheive it?
In my opinion, u can use the system calls on proc files.
Eg:-
open("/proc/ur_entry",...)
or
prompt# echo something > /proc/ur_entry
Please refer the chapter for proc filesytem
for more details...
> regards,
> parag.
>
Regards,
Shine Mohamed Jabbar
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 Gabor Fekete wrote :
> >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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